[Debconf-devel] Bug#928182: debconf: readline frontend does not show options before prompting user

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 02:55:23PM +0000, Heitor Alves de Siqueira wrote:
> When upgrading packages with apt or dpkg, debconf scripts are ran
> through 'run-parts' with the '--report' flag. This causes script output
> to be handled through pipes set up by run-parts, and buffers output from
> maintainer scripts nicely for formatting.

This is news to me, and I can't find any such code in any of debconf,
dpkg, or apt.  Could you point me to the code that does this run-parts
handling, so that I can work out how best to integrate with it?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]