postinst prompts for questions outside of debconf
Bug #56076 reported by
Ryan Lovett
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sendmail (Debian) |
Fix Released
|
Unknown
|
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| sendmail (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Undecided
|
Albin Tonnerre | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: sendmail-bin
configure () {
local enter;
echo -n "Configure now ? (y/N) ";
read yn;
...
According to policy this is depracated behavior. From http://
"Package maintainer scripts may prompt the user if necessary. Prompting should be done by communicating through a program, such as debconf, which conforms to the Debian Configuration management specification, version 2 or higher. Prompting the user by other means, such as by hand[8], is now deprecated."
This complicates unattended installations.
| Changed in sendmail: | |
| assignee: | nobody → lutin |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in sendmail: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in sendmail (Debian): | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Changed in sendmail (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
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