Bug#863861: progress bar not showing

[Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de>]

On 06/01/2017 09:02 AM, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> 
> What would you want us to show? Obviously, we do not know
> what is happening - the postinst script could in fact be
> hanging. We could display a progress par that steps one
> further and then back or something, but that might give
> a wrong impression if a script is hanging.
> 

Apt could show the screen output of the tasks that are
running, as aptitude does. It knows the process ID of
the dpkg it has started, so it could show the output of
"ps -ef --forest" for this node. It could show a busybee.
...


Regards
Harri