I suggest printing the message on stdout instead of stderr to emphasize that it is an informal message and not a warning.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1919314 Title: debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: The warning appears when installing apt-utils, with no way to silence the message. If apt-utils is required in the base image, it should be added there and not be a standalone package. This is a transcript from Ubuntu 20.04.1: $ LANG=C sudo apt install apt-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: apt-utils 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 159 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/213 kB of archives. After this operation, 852 kB of additional disk space will be used. debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously unselected package apt-utils. (Reading database ... 688084 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../apt-utils_2.0.4_amd64.deb ... Unpacking apt-utils (2.0.4) ... Setting up apt-utils (2.0.4) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.1-1) ... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: apt-utils 2.0.4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-65.73-generic 5.4.78 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-65-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.16 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Mar 16 11:30:26 2021 EcryptfsInUse: Yes SourcePackage: apt UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-04 (315 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1919314/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
