On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:28:24 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 22:31:18 +0100 Nicolas DEGAND wrote: > > > Using the aptitude ncurses interface (invoking "aptitude") with my usual > > account. I type the root password when asked by aptitude. > [...] > > Dear users, > since a radical fix for this bug is taking longer than I was hoping, > I would like to summarize how the issue may be worked around for the > time being. [...]
Dear users, I have implemented a temporary work around for this bug. It will be included in the next upload of apt-listbugs to Debian unstable (hence I tagged this bug as "pending"). With this work around, apt-listbugs does no longer crash when it cannot open /dev/tty: it now detects this situation, warns the user, and switches to non-interactive failure mode. An explanation has been included in the README.Debian file. If you are curious about this modification, you can take a look at it [1] on the public git repository. [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs.git;a=commitdiff;h=4e77151495e67094b17bf2b11ebc4d2337c691ea Obviously, this work around is less than satisfactory... :-( However, a real fix for this issue requires a more radical change in how apt-get, aptitude and other compatible package managers communicate with the commands that are invoked through the Pre-Install-Pkgs hook. For this reason, I filed a wishlist bug report against apt-listbugs [2] and a wishlist bug report against apt [3], with the latter blocking the former. If this feature is implemented in apt-get (and other package managers), I will try to use it in apt-listbugs (so that it may work without having to explicitly open /dev/tty). [2] http://bugs.debian.org/671728 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/671726 I hope this may help. P.S.: if any of you would like to be set as the submitter of bug report #671728 [2], please don't hesitate to ask me. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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