On Tue, 2020-03-10 at 21:10 +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > Control: tag -1 confirmed > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 06:13:28AM +0000, jnq...@gmail.com wrote: > > Package: src:apt > > Version: 2.0.0 > > > > Please add red/yellow colour highlighting to the 'E'/'W' prefixex > > respectively output for errors/warnings respectively. (UX > > improvement). > > > > This would not only benefit direct use of apt binaries, but also be > > beneficial when used in scripting, such as with live-build where a > > warnign could be hidden in the middle of a great deal more output > > that > > with direct use. > > How does the attached look? Bold red for error, bold yellow for > warning and yellow for notice; matching dpkg.
looks perfectly fine to me in principle. I'm familiar with dpkg's colouring which sticks to the common values of "\033[1;31m" (red+bold) for error and "\033[1;33m" (yellow+bold) for warnings, which is what I'm sure you've probably used also and is inline with my expectations :)
