Bug#992309: apt: term.log aborts when packages have failures but installation is retried

[Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 2.2.3
Severity: normal


Hey.

I've seen the following already few times, but always used apt via aptitude,
so maybe the problem is actually within that.

What happens is the following:
- I upgrade/install/remove a number of packages.
- Amongt one/several of them there is an error during installation and one
  gets a line like:
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  packagename1
  packagename2
  ...
- At the point, /var/log/apt/term.log ends with the ususal:
  Log ended: <date>

- However, aptitude seems to retry once...
  Sometimes this means that all packages that haven't been installed/upgraded/
  removed, get now done, that is: *before* the errorneous package from above
  gets tried again.
  This means that all their log output is lost.
  Sometimes the packages that failed previously actually run through fine the
  2nd time.
  So again, that output would be lost.


Cheers,
Chris.