[Aptitude-devel] Bug#795396: aptitude: DEBIAN_FRONTEND does not affect the debconf invoked by "aptitude

[Karl O. Pinc]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.11-1+b1
Severity: normal

Hi,

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
aptitude --quiet=2 update
aptitude --quiet=2 -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=$tmpsources -y safe-upgrade

Results in an interactive debconf session on jessie.  This was not
the case on wheezy.  (Assuming of course the safe-upgrade results
in a change that invokes debconf.)

Debconf version: 1.5.56

$ debconf-show debconf
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
* debconf/frontend: Readline
  debconf-apt-progress/title:
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
* debconf/priority: medium


-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: xterm
$DISPLAY not set.
which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude

aptitude version information:
aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Nov  8 2014 13:25:38
Compiler: g++ 4.9.1
Compiled against:
  apt version 4.12.0
  NCurses version 5.9
  libsigc++ version: 2.4.0
  Gtk+ support disabled.
  Qt support disabled.

Current library versions:
  NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913
  cwidget version: 0.5.17
  Apt version: 4.12.0

aptitude linkage:
	linux-gate.so.1 (0xb777b000)
	libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb71e4000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71a8000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb7184000)
	libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb717d000)
	libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7079000)
	libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6fa0000)
	libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0xb6f88000)
	libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/sse2/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6d80000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d64000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c72000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c2c000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c0f000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6a64000)
	libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6a60000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a5b000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6a3e000)
	libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a2b000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6a01000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb69f8000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb69f2000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb777e000)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.11-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            1.0.9.8
ii  libboost-iostreams1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                     2.19-18
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.17-2
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.9.2-10
ii  libncursesw5              5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.4.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  libxapian22               1.2.19-1

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.11-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1.1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47
pn  debtags           <none>
ii  tasksel           3.31+deb8u1

-- no debconf information