[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#836433: samba: install "hangs", synaptic more details reveals pager prompt

[F. Eugene Aumson]

Subject: samba: install "hangs", synaptic more details reveals pager prompt
Source: samba
Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

in synaptic package manager, i did "reload", then "mark all upgrades", then
"apply".

then i waited.  and waited.  and waited.  synaptic was taking forever to
"apply changes".  i waited at least 20 minutes, probably 30.

then i thought "surely something is wrong," so i clicked the "show more
details" thing in the dialog box, and the install was clearly just sitting
still.

eventually i noticed the ":" prompt at the bottom of the "screen", and
realized that it was sitting in a pager.  i hit 'q' and the install marched
onward.

i expected that the install of the package could proceed withouth manual
intervention

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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