Bug#125790: apt: apt-get -q is not completely suitable for logging
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal
The output from apt-get -q is not quite as clean as one would like it
to be. Included below is a typescript from an apt session; in
particular, the line [Scanning packages] I think should be excluded
from apt-get's output when the -q option is specified.
(I've taken the liberty to replace carriage returns with literal "^M"
sequences in the typescript.)
there:/home/era/work/debian/there# apt-get -q install bug
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bug
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.2kB of archives. After unpacking 56.3kB will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org stable/main bug 3.2.10 [20.2kB]
Fetched 20.2kB in 4s (4273B/s)
^M100% [Scanning packages]^M ^MSelecting previously deselected package bug.
(Reading database ... 27247 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bug (from .../archives/bug_3.2.10_all.deb) ...
Setting up bug (3.2.10) ...
there:/home/era/work/debian/there# exit
If this is fixed already in unstable/testing, feel free to ignore.
Thanks,
/* era */
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux there 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.3-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-13 The GNU stdc++ library
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