Bug#855937: apt-get's error messages don't include its name.

2017-02-24 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Julian, > Not going to happen. The output has been this way for almost 20 years, I agree it's been broken for almost 20 years. I think apt-get has 20 years left in it yet. > we're not suddenly going to prepend stuff to it - that would actually > break things. So perhaps an option could be a

Bug#855937: apt-get's error messages don't include its name.

2017-02-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Package: apt Version: 1.2.19 Running apticron, manually or by cron, results in E: Held packages were changed and -y was used without --allow-change-held-packages. Using strace, I found this is from one of the commands it runs and can trigger it directly. # /usr/bin/apt-get -q -y --igno