severity 302185 important
thanks

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 04:04:52PM +0200, Henning Glawe wrote:
> Package: exim
> Version: 3.36-14
> Severity: critical

> automatic installations fail because 
> read -p 
> is called after displaying the 'exim 3.x is obsolete' message in
> postinst _without_ checking for DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive".
> this makes the whole machine wait during the installation and thus
> renders the system unusable

This is not a release-critical bug for sarge (and least of all meets the
criteria for severity: critical).  It is a bug for a package to not respect
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, but not a release blocker.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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