Package: debconf Version: 1.5.77 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
whenever debconf spawns a dialog frontend, it overwrites previous lines in the terminal output. This is an issue for instance when apt is logging useful information about package installation (such as actions to take manually), since Shift+PgUp will not show the full install output anymore. It is still possible to check installation logs, but it is cumbersome and not very friendly. Some things might be missed. I am used to have a quite long buffer exactly for these use cases. Ideally, before spawning the dialog frontend, enough blank lines should be inserted matching the height of the terminal window, to avoid overwriting previous outputted lines by other processes. Bests, Matteo -- System Information: Debian Release: 11.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii perl-base 5.32.1-4 Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 2.2.4 ii debconf-i18n 1.5.77 Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> pn debconf-kde-helper <none> pn debconf-utils <none> ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-1 pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> ii perl 5.32.1-4 ii whiptail 0.52.21-4+b3 -- debconf information: debconf-apt-progress/info: * debconf/priority: medium * debconf/frontend: Dialog debconf-apt-progress/preparing: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: debconf-apt-progress/title:
