Hi Colin,
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:27:52 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 10:01:43AM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> > I always wondered which scheme dpkg follows when installing packages
> > and writing the "Setting up ..." lines. Sometimes, empty lines are
> > interspersed.
> >
> > Looking into the code, the reason is in src/configure.c where a
> > putchar('\n'); is done when maintainer_script_installed() returns !=
> > 0. Maybe someone wanted to make sure that after execution of
> > maintainer scripts, a proper CR is done? On the other hand side, all
> > the other invocations of maintainer_script_installed() (including the
> > "post-installation" ones like the above one) don't handle it that way.
>
> I always thought this was useful information; it made it easy to see in
> upgrade logs from users when a postinst script was being run (and while
> it was a bit inconsistent, postinst scripts are usually the most
> interesting case so this was OK).
Could you explain how is the fact that the script is being run
(supposedly w/o errors) useful information or have you found a
particular situation when you used that information?
thanks,
guillem
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