Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database"

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Craig Francis writes ("Line ending issue when "Reading database""):
> When running `apt-get upgrade` via a cron job, there is a "Reading database"
> section.
> 
> In the email this appears as:
...
> It's not a major issue, as it just breaks DKIM signing of emails;
> where the "\ r" is changed to a "\r\n" after the DKIM signature has
> been added.
> 
> I've been informed by Julian Klode that this relates to `dpkg`:

I think that these \r-terminated progress messages should be printed
only when the destination is a tty.

Ian.