Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.60.6-1 Severity: normal Currently, GLib and various other GTK+-related software provide logging, which goes to stdout or stderr. Much of this logging is developer focused and basically warns developers that they are doing questionable things that one or another toolkit is unhappy with.
While this is great for debugging and developer visibility, it's not great for end users who invoke GTK+-based programs from the terminal, where the messages obscure previous output, sometimes scrolling the screen significantly. In the past, GVim has been bitten by this prominently, but various other software, including atril (a PDF viewer) and other tools commonly run from the command line, have fallen victim to it as well. The most inconvenient part for users is that upgrading one of the shared libraries a piece of software uses can cause it to emit many more warnings than before, with little recourse. Asking individual packages to fix these issues is not effective, because, as is the nature with open source, developers lack the time to effectively fix all issues, and these issues are seen as purely cosmetic. I've asked several packages to do so, and the turnaround time for fixing these issues is usually measured in years, if they are fixed at all. GLib should learn an environment variable to either suppress non-fatal messages (i.e., those that do not cause the program to abort) or redirect them to a file (e.g., /dev/null). Even if upstream does not want this feature, Debian should provide it. This is a common issue with multiple questions online, and would provide a large amount of value to users. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libffi6 3.2.1-9 ii libmount1 2.34-0.1 ii libpcre3 2:8.39-12+b1 ii libselinux1 2.9-2+b2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+b1 Versions of packages libglib2.0-0 recommends: ii libglib2.0-data 2.60.6-1 ii shared-mime-info 1.10-1 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.17-2 libglib2.0-0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- brian m. carlson: Houston, Texas, US OpenPGP: https://keybase.io/bk2204
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