Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.7 I've noticed that in some cases dpkg gives colour highlighted error/warning labels in its output, but in others it doesn't. The highlighting obviously gives an enhanced UX experience and lacking it in places detracts from that.
For example, I notice that it _is_ used with bad options, e.g. in "dpkg: error: unknown option --purg" While it is not done in "dpkg: error processing package python3-uno ( --purge)" In the latter case of course there is no actual such label to highlight, the word "error" is part of the specific log message. So this breaks down into two issues 1) instances where colour support is missing (e.g. from looking at the codebase I can see that the start-stop-daemon utility lacks it) 2) instances where there is no label to colour I'm looking at the codebase to see if I can offer up a patch to address both of these.
