Sven Joachim writes ("Re: Line ending issue when "Reading database""):
> One problem here is that there is currently no option for dpkg to
> suppress the output entirely, see bug #539617[1]. The other one is that
> apt always runs dpkg in a tty, unless an undocumented option is used[2].
I wasn't aware of that latter. I think that is a bug in abpt.
Maybe once upon a time this was a reasonable workaround for ancient
maintainer scripts, and the need to be able to run apt without a tty.
But those days are long gone.
Would someone care to file a bug against apt, requesting that the
default be changed early in the buster cycle ?
Ian.
