Control: tag -1 src:linux Control: severity -1 wishlist On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 19:07 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > Package: linux-image-3.12-1-686-pae > > Compared to other packages, > this package makes many lines of output during installation. > That is nice, but the admin must look at each line looking for errors, > when in fact they are all not errors or warnings. > There ought to be a Debian standard.
Warnings/errors are usually clearly marked as such. The several
packages responsible for these message are:
> Setting up linux-image-3.12-1-686-pae (3.12.6-2) ...
dpkg
> Running depmod.
src:linux. I think this could be removed.
> Examining /etc/kernel/postinst.d.
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/apt-auto-removal 3.12-1-686-pae
> /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-68
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools 3.12-1-686-pae
> /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-686
src:linux. We could tell run-parts not to print these messages, but
usually upgrade failures are the fault of some other package's hook and
these informational messages allow us to reassign bug reports correctly.
However, I notice that run-parts has a --report option that might be
preferable - it would only list the hooks that themselves generate
output (or that fail).
> update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-686-pae
initramfs-tools
> run-parts: executing /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub 3.12-1-686-pae
> /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-686-
src:linux, continued.
> Generating grub configuration file ...
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.12-1-686-pae
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.12-1-686-pae
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11-2-686-pae
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11-2-686-pae
> Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11-1-686-pae
> Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.11-1-686-pae
> done
src:grub. It could be less verbose, but I think many users expect to
see some confirmation that the right things will appear on the menu at
the next boot.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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