Anthony Towns wrote: > Using stdout is current practice and quite convenient, but apt frontends > then can't distinguish between random prompty stuff, and these note things. > > In the longer term, it may well interfere with the debconf worldview > as well. > > So I can't see any way of making this work with stdout and current > practice.
So an alternative that has occurred to me is that we could introduce a command like dpkg-log and require that all output goes through it. dpkg-log "Recalibrating the frobnitzer" dpkg-log --long "Bytecompiling for emacs20" dpkg-log --longdone Then dpkg-log could be replaced/coopted by these apt frontends you apeak of, and by debconf, so their dpkg-log versions actually handle the logging however they prefer to handle it. I'm not sure how things like apt-frontends could temporarily make their version be used, so this needs more thought. -- see shy jo
