Re: dpkg logging

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

wichert@wiggy.net (Wichert Akkerman) writes:

> Previously Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Stdout and stderr from the maintainer scripts. (This may be obvious, but
>> you didn't explicitly list it.)
>
> No, they should use debconf.

Regardless of whether packages are using debconf, I have wondered for *years*
why we didn't at least have the option of logging stdout and stderr from
everything in the install/update process.  I think it's a good idea.

Bdale