Bug#891040: apt: does not log enough to term.log

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 1.6~alpha7
Severity: important

In /var/log/apt/term.log, the output before I press Return is missing.

For example, this:

-----cutting here may damage your screen surface-----
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Starting pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Starting 2 pkgProblemResolver with broken count: 0
Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  kate5-data ktexteditor-data ktexteditor-katepart libeditorconfig0 libgit2-26 libhttp-parser2.7.1
  libkf5itemmodels5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5 libkf5newstuffcore5
  libkf5syntaxhighlighting-data libkf5syntaxhighlighting5 libkf5texteditor-bin libkf5texteditor5
Suggested packages:
  khelpcenter konsole-kpart mercurial darcs
Recommended packages:
  sonnet-plugins qml-module-org-kde-newstuff
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  kate kate5-data ktexteditor-data ktexteditor-katepart libeditorconfig0 libgit2-26 libhttp-parser2.7.1
  libkf5itemmodels5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5 libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5 libkf5newstuffcore5
  libkf5syntaxhighlighting-data libkf5syntaxhighlighting5 libkf5texteditor-bin libkf5texteditor5
0 upgraded, 16 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
Need to get 11.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 40.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
-----cutting here may damage your screen surface-----

*All* of this is really important information possibly even weeks later.

-- Package-specific info:

-- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/preferences.d/dash-mksh.pref present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/local.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.117
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2017.7
ii  gpgv                    2.2.4-3
ii  libapt-pkg5.0           1.6~alpha7
ii  libc6                   2.26-6
ii  libgcc1                 1:8-20180218-1
ii  libgnutls30             3.5.18-1
ii  libseccomp2             2.3.1-2.1
ii  libstdc++6              8-20180218-1

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  ca-bundle [ca-certificates]  20170309tarent1

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                      <none>
pn  aptitude | synaptic | wajig  <none>
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.19.0.5
ii  gnupg                        2.2.4-3
ii  gnupg1                       1.4.22-4
ii  powermgmt-base               1.31+nmu1

-- no debconf information