On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think at this point, now that debconf is mandatory for all but essential > packages, removing the guarantee of a controlling terminal is > uncontroversial. This bug has been open for a while and I'd like to put > it to bed. Here's proposed wording. I'm looking for feedback or seconds.
Seconded.
Cheers,
Andrew.
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 27deaa7..bf99884 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -3529,15 +3529,17 @@ Package: libc6
> <heading>Controlling terminal for maintainer scripts</heading>
>
> <p>
> - The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run with a
> - controlling terminal and can interact with the user.
> - Because these scripts may be executed with standard output
> - redirected into a pipe for logging purposes, Perl scripts
> - should set unbuffered output by setting <tt>$|=1</tt> so
> - that the output is printed immediately rather than being
> - buffered.
> + Maintainer scripts are not guaranteed to run with a controlling
> + terminal and may not be able to interact with the user. They
> + must be able to fall back to noninteractive behavior if no
> + controlling terminal is available. Maintainer scripts that
> + prompt via a program conforming to the Debian Configuration
> + Management Specification (see <ref id="maintscriptprompt">) may
> + assume that program will handle falling back to noninteractive
> + behavior.
> </p>
> </sect>
> +
> <sect id="exitstatus">
> <heading>Exit status</heading>
>
> @@ -9397,9 +9399,9 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
> </p>
>
> <p>
> - The maintainer scripts are guaranteed to run with a
> - controlling terminal and can interact with the user.
> - See <ref id="controllingterminal">.
> + The maintainer scripts are not guaranteed to run with a
> + controlling terminal and may not be able to interact with
> + the user. See <ref id="controllingterminal">.
> </p>
> </item>
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
>
>
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