On 09/07/2021 06.50, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
..but this easily gets too verbose. Ideally apt had a mode that if it fails, it would output a proper error message with a "trace", but in normal cases stays short and sweet not to clutter the logs too much.
In the current scenario apt does not fail, it just takes a "suboptimal" decision: removing the package we are interested in. You would want a trace here, too.
Do you read the successful logs? Does it really matter that they are "too verbose"? Similarily buildd logs should be as verbose as possible, s.t. there is hopefully enough information to investigate failures if the only thing being available is the logfile.
Andreas
