[Bug 16512] using debconf

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------- Additional Comments From debzilla at ubuntu.com  2005-09-28 06:45 UTC -------
Message-ID: <20050928051039.GO17585 at cyberhqz.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:10:39 -0700
From: Ryan Murray <rmurray at debian.org>
To: 330445 at bugs.debian.org, control at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#330445: do_initrd message fails in noninteractive install

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severity 330445 serious
thanks

>         The fact that kernel-package does not have these image
>  packages use debconf is a bug (a normal bug, so far), and I am thus
>  merging this report with the other "use debconf" reports.

http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt

Point 4, Autobuilding.  This bug is causing the di kernel images to FTBFS.

>         This is not really a serious bug:
> ,----[ Policy document ]
> | 6.3. Controlling terminal for maintainer scripts
> | ------------------------------------------------
> |=20
> |      The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run with a controlling
> |      terminal and can interact with the user.  If they need to prompt f=
or
> |      passwords, do full-screen interaction or something similar you sho=
uld
> |      do these things to and from `/dev/tty', since `dpkg' will at some
> |      point redirect scripts' standard input and output so that it can l=
og
> |      the installation process.  Likewise, because these scripts may be
> |      executed with standard output redirected into a pipe for logging
> |      purposes, Perl scripts should set unbuffered output by setting `$|=
=3D1'
> |      so that the output is printed immediately rather than being buffer=
ed.
> `----

I'd say that policy is out of date with current practices, and release team
policies.

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