Bug#302185: breaks noninteractive installations
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3.36-14 Severity: critical automatic installations fail because read -p is called after displaying the 'exim 3.x is obsolete' message in postinst _without_ checking for DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive.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 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages exim depends on: ii cron3.0pl1-87management of regular background p ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb3 3.2.9-22 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [ru ii libident0.22-3 simple RFC1413 client library - ru ii libldap22.1.30-3 OpenLDAP libraries ii libpam0g0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpcre35.0-1Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bug#302185: breaks noninteractive installations
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3.36-14 Severity: critical automatic installations fail because read -p is called after displaying the 'exim 3.x is obsolete' message in postinst _without_ checking for DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive.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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
