Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database"

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

Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database""):
> On Tue, 2017-03-28 at 15:57:33 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Would someone care to file a bug against apt, requesting that the
> > default be changed early in the buster cycle ?
> 
> This is definitely an intended feature. apt does that so that it can
> intercept the output and log it into the term.log file.

apt should certainly do this only if it has a controlling terminal,
and arguably only if the stderr is directed there.

It should not provide a controlling terminal to dpkg unless it had one
itself.

.oO{ Also if it does this, does it proxy all the stuff which a pty
wrapper needs to proxy? }

Ian.