Package: dpkg Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@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. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
