Mike Stroyan's analysis is correct. This is not a bug in nvidia-common,
it's a bug in dkms for outputting to stdout.
Standard Ubuntu kernel packages don't load the debconf confmodule, but
custom packages built with make-kpkg do, and this is perfectly
legitimate. Anything called from a maintainer script that has debconf
loaded should not be outputting to stdout. For that matter, Ubuntu
Policy has this to say about maintainer script output in general:
3.9. Maintainer Scripts
-----------------------
The package installation scripts should avoid producing output which
is unnecessary for the user to see and should rely on `dpkg' to stave
off boredom on the part of a user installing many packages. This
means, amongst other things, using the `--quiet' option on
`install-info'.
dkms really needs to be fixed to not output on stdout. If output is
needed, it should use stderr - but output really should not be needed at
all except in the case of errors.
** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Triaged
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dkms - error when installing custom kernel
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292606
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