Debian Bug report logs - #12591
nn: unchecked prompting in postinst

Package: nn; Maintainer for nn is Cord Beermann <cord@debian.org>; Source for nn is src:nn (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Giuliano Procida <gpp10@cus.cam.ac.uk>

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 15:03:21 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01

Done: unknown

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu>:
Bug#12591; Package nn. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Giuliano Procida <gpp10@cus.cam.ac.uk>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at maintonly@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: nn
Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01

This package appears to violate Debian Policy; section 2.3.8
("Maintainer scripts") of the current Policy Manual states:

"Any necessary prompting should almost always be confined to the
post-installation script, and should be protected with a conditional
so that unnecessary prompting doesn't happen if a package's
installation fails and the postinst is called with abort-upgrade,
abort-remove or abort-deconfigure."

This bug report was produced automatically and there is a small chance
that it is erroneous. My apologies should this be the case.

Giuliano Procida.

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Debian Bug report logs - #12591 nn: unchecked prompting in postinst

Debian Bug report logs - #12591
nn: unchecked prompting in postinst