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-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc3
-rw-r--r--doc/dpkg-tech.dbk10
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
index c578cc338..644e4d8e4 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc
@@ -1545,9 +1545,6 @@ bool pkgDPkgPM::Go(APT::Progress::PackageManager *progress)
_exit(100);
}
- /* No Job Control Stop Env is a magic dpkg var that prevents it
- from using sigstop */
- putenv((char *)"DPKG_NO_TSTP=yes");
execvp(Args[0], (char**) &Args[0]);
cerr << "Could not exec dpkg!" << endl;
_exit(100);
diff --git a/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk b/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk
index 2584cf640..f95716cf4 100644
--- a/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk
+++ b/doc/dpkg-tech.dbk
@@ -404,15 +404,7 @@ As yet unwritten. You can refer to the other manuals for now. See
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
-DPKG_NO_TSTP - if set to a non-null value, this variable causes dpkg to run a
-child shell process instead of sending itself a SIGTSTP, when the user selects
-to background the dpkg process when it asks about conffiles.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-SHELL - used to determine which shell to run in the case when DPKG_NO_TSTP
-is set.
+SHELL - used to determine which shell to run.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>