Comment 6 for bug 874409

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The Gavitron (me-gavitron) wrote :

can't test on a natty box, because I hate unity, but in lucid/maverick even this documented behaviour is broken:

$ sudo apt-get remove -y -q=2 some_package |tee foo
$ cat -v foo
(Reading database ... ^M(Reading database ... 5%^M(Reading database ... 10%^M(Reading database ... 15%^M(Reading database ... 20%^M(Reading database ... 25%^M(Reading database ... 30%^M(Reading database ... 35%^M(Reading database ... 40%^M(Reading database ... 45%^M(Reading database ... 50%^M(Reading database ... 55%^M(Reading database ... 60%^M(Reading database ... 65%^M(Reading database ... 70%^M(Reading database ... 75%^M(Reading database ... 80%^M(Reading database ... 85%^M(Reading database ... 90%^M(Reading database ... 95%^M(Reading database ... 100%^M(Reading database ... 46388 files and directories currently installed.)^M
Removing some_package ...^M

output is the same with any of -q -qq -q=1 -q=2