Bug#863861: progress bar not showing

[Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:22:53AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> 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

On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 11:50:22AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Maybe a verbose option "apt -v" would do, showing
> the dpkg output.
> 
> A busybee could read the output of dpkg, rotating
> for every new line dpkg has written.

I'm not sure what you mean. The entire output is shown to the
user - we don't hide anything.

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