We likely have to postpone the changes for dpkg to the next release
cycle as we need to prioritize work on coreutils over the visuals of our
build logs and ease of disabling these options (which so far nobody has
asked for).

The former would have been easy and is what I had planned for, but doko
specifically requested the ability to also disable these flags via build
options and that requires significantly more effort.

The next steps here are to come up with flag names and propose them to
debian-dpkg and get a consensus before moving forward with implementing
them. The initial patch can be found in

https://git.launchpad.net/~juliank/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/commit/?id=3ebdfb178dd9498c34a1095e5cbe474b0faf6d4e

but my conversation with doko suggests these need to move to Debian.pm
or some more stuff is needed there to register the flags (hence why it
needs coordinating).

Also without coordination it would only be usable in Ubuntu deltas,
which would incur more overhead if anyone actually used the option.

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