Package: aptitude
Version: 0.3.1-4
Severity: minor

To reproduce:

1) start aptitude on a not so fast computer
2) select any package
3) press g
4) press g again to start download
5) press enter to start installation
6) the screen switches to all black and installation messages appear
7) package is now installed, press enter to continue
8) repeat steps 2-5
9) now, for a while, the "press enter to continue" message from step 7
is still shown, as dpkg scrambles to run. depending on the machine, this
can take from a fraction of second, to a dozen or so seconds.

This can be misleading to a newbie, who could think that the pause is
because he needs to press enter (he does not realize that the message is
from previous run). Actually I have seen a few users pressing enter
there.

To fix this, either clear the screen, or print a few empty lines and
then a message of "starting installation..." or similar.

Marcin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.5 0.6.25     Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.1-4  GCC support library
ii  libncurses5                   5.4-9      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0               2.0.10-1   type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++5                    1:3.3.6-8  The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn  aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none>     (no description available)

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