On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 06:59:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I thought that policy used to have something to say about over-noisy
> maintainer scripts along the lines of "leave the progress reporting to
> dpkg", but I cannot find it. Was this lost in a reorg?
No. Open Policy Manual table of contents, search for "maintainer scripts",
follow the first link, read:
The package installation scripts should avoid producing output which it is
unnecessary for the user to see and should rely on dpkg to stave off
boredom on the part of a user installing many packages.
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