Debian bug report logs - #957
dpkg should automatically log everything

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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
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Subject: dpkg should automatically log everything

Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.42.1

I wrote:
> Corey Sweeney writes ("Bug#947: 22 errors in instalation"):
> > the point is that it should be on by default during instalation, because
> > that's where half the problems are going to come from, and i'm sure
> > you'd like to see what it actually said on the screen, rather then
> > someones flakey memory, trying to describe what's on the screen.
> 
> I'll see what I can do about logging dpkg's errors during
> installation, but this will not come soon.

This is a reasonable change request, and the absence of the feature
seems to me to be a bug.  Hence this report.

Ian.