Bug#778451: dpkg-deb --build: add progress indicator

[Alexandre Detiste]

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.23
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

Please add a progress indicator to "dpkg-deb --build".

Most build process won't need this;
but Game-Data-Packager is using dpkg-deb to package huge things like Doom3
interractively, and the dpkg-deb --build last a long time and make it feels it
is stuck.

Alexandre Detiste



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.18.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0   1.0.6-7+b2
ii  libc6        2.19-13
ii  liblzma5     5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3
ii  libselinux1  2.3-2
ii  tar          1.27.1-2+b1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt  1.0.9.6

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