Debian bug report logs - #957 dpkg should automatically log everything Package: dpkg ; Reported by: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson); 146 days old . ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs: From cus.cam.ac.uk!iwj10 Wed Jun 7 05:15:22 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sJK13-0007u4C; Wed, 7 Jun 95 05:15 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11932 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 7 Jun 1995 05:13:54 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0sJK0c-000BzuC; Wed, 7 Jun 95 13:14 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.31); Wed, 7 Jun 95 02:31 BST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 7 Jun 95 02:31 BST From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: debian-bugs@pixar.com X-Debian-Pr: quiet 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acknowledgement sent to iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) : New bug report received and filed, but not forwarded. Full text available. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov