[Debconf-devel] Bug#985572: debconf: please test for the usability of the debconf frontends

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:26:05PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2021-03-20 10:25, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > By the way, I have noticed that their is support for the Xdialog
> > frontend, but it seems that in practice no package is providing this
> > binary.
> 
> Please note that this is already implemented in cdebconf. If whiptail
> installed but not usable, it fallbacks to readline.

I rather doubt that, since cdebconf doesn't use whiptail - it has its
own in-process newt frontend.

The suggestion to test with --version seems reasonable, though.  I'll
look into that.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]