#991218 dpkg-fsys-usrunmess: too verbose, slowing stuff on slow terminals

Package:
dpkg
Source:
dpkg
Description:
Debian package management system
Submitter:
Adam Borowski
Date:
2025-08-12 17:23:03 UTC
Severity:
minor
#991218#5
Date:
2021-07-17 16:59:01 UTC
From:
To:
Hi!
It's far better to run usrunmess from a system started "single" rather than
when running X-and-forty-daemons.  However, this usually means fbcon
terminal, which even on this year's hardware is so much slower than hardware
text mode on a CGA was.

Also, Debian's default kernels have eleventy million files installed under
/lib -- linux-image-5.10.0-8-amd64 for example ships 4752 modules.  Woe if
you have multiple kernel packages!

Put together, you spend a long long time watching files listed by usrunmess
slowly scroll by.

Thus: could you please decrease default verbosity somehow?


Meow!
-- Package-specific info:

#991218#10
Date:
2025-08-12 17:20:51 UTC
From:
To:
The relevant program got removed from dpkg in the 1.22.12 release,
with:

https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=12e3bc2991ac27f73545a246bb95b84fb8d262c9

Closing, these reports.

Thanks,
Guillem