Comment 3 for bug 290234

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

It appears that apt doesn't write dlstatus messages to Status-Fd if given the -q option. I'm not sure whether we should have pkgsel stop passing -q, or fix this; however it does seem a little odd for -q to control non-user-visible messages as well as general wittering on stderr.