Comment 2 for bug 1885874

this has been fixed in >2.0.0 and afaik the 2.1.0 Debian package will be sync soon.

FYI: the part of the wget2 help and manpage:

     --progress Type of progress bar (bar, none).
                              (default: none)

‐‐progress=type
       Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use. Supported
       indicator types are none and bar.

       Type bar draws an ASCII progress bar graphics (a.k.a “thermometer” dis‐
       play) indicating the status of retrieval.

       If the output is a TTY, bar is the default. Else, the progress bar
       will be switched off, except when using ‐‐force‐progress.

       The type ‘dot’ is currently not supported, but won’t trigger an error
       to not break wget command lines.

       The parameterized types bar:force and bar:force:noscroll will add the
       effect of ‐‐force‐progress. These are accepted for better wget compat‐
       ibility.