About what progress reporting are we talking here? (apt has a gazillion steps which have independent progress reporting, so "progress report" is a tat too unspecific).
If we are talking about the "(Reading database" in the output you attached, this isn't even coming from apt – this is coming from dpkg [and apt never controlled the (non-)quietness of dpkg], so in that case you want to talk to them instead. -- 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/1448917 Title: apt-get -o quiet=1 dist-upgrade isn't quiet anymore Status in apt package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 15.04 Release: 15.04 apt: Installed: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 Candidate: 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 Version table: *** 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status Current: Until updating from Utopic to Vivid apt-get with command line parameter "-o quiet 1" did not output the progress as formatted text. Since the update the progress is written to stdout as formatted text. This breaks a lot of scripts, e.g. the cron-apt package with mail send enabled. The attached text is no longer text only and will be encoded as binary, so the mail is unreadable. Expected: Same behaviour as with version from Utopic, no progress output To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1448917/+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
