dab install fails on packages with critical questions

jmartin

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dab install fails when a package is installed that asks "critical" questions.

An example is "nis".

That's because, even if DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set to noninteractive, debconf will start a menu based configuration for the critical questions.

You can avoid this problem by adding
Code:
export DEBIAN_PRIORITY="critical"
to /usr/lib/dab/scripts/defenv