XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From:
jak@debian.org
Package: dpkg
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc:
jak@debian.org
Users are complaining loudly that dpkg's output is too noisy,
and we should be looking at how we can improve that, currently
for each package we print at least 3 lines, and it's very
distracting:
Preparing to unpack
Unpacking
Setting up
I think these should be a rolling status line with a carriage
return at the end, such that it gets overriden by output,
but I'm not quite sure.
Optimally we'd be able to turn the output off, and control
it from apt based on the dpkg status log. And then also capture
output from maintainer script and essentially prepend the line
to the backlog when the maintainer script has output.
But not sure if that's feasible, probably needs some very
annoying manipulation of pty stuff.
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