I've just submitted a patch against dpkg to allow us to suppress the distracting extra output we now get in the logs due to progress updates while dpkg reads its database.
See http://bugs.debian.org/539617 for details. If you have any comments from a D-I PoV, then please let me know. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

