Thanks for the report.The version of libtiff-tools in testing still outputs to stderr, so I am inclined to say this is not (yet) a Debian bug, and certainly not important.
Indeed, your patch will break the version of gscan2pdf in testing. Does the attached patch also fix your problem?
diff --git a/bin/gscan2pdf b/bin/gscan2pdf
index 5f911aef..e8664d06 100755
--- a/bin/gscan2pdf
+++ b/bin/gscan2pdf
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ sub check_dependencies {
'djvu', 'stderr', qr/DjVuLibre-([\d.]+)/xsm, [ 'cjb2', '--version' ]
],
[
- 'libtiff', 'stderr',
+ 'libtiff', 'both',
qr/LIBTIFF,\sVersion\s([\d.]+)/xsm, [ 'tiffcp', '-h' ]
],
diff --git a/lib/Gscan2pdf/Document.pm b/lib/Gscan2pdf/Document.pm
index c0e0ad1c..76f832f0 100644
--- a/lib/Gscan2pdf/Document.pm
+++ b/lib/Gscan2pdf/Document.pm
@@ -2180,8 +2180,24 @@ sub program_version {
sub _program_version {
my ( $stream, $regex, @output ) = @_;
my ( $status, $out, $err ) = @output;
- my $output = $stream eq 'stdout' ? $out : $err;
- if ( defined $output and $output =~ $regex ) { return $1 }
+ if ( not defined $out ) { $out = q{} }
+ if ( not defined $err ) { $err = q{} }
+ my $output;
+ given ($stream) {
+ when ('stdout') {
+ $output = $out
+ }
+ when ('stderr') {
+ $output = $err
+ }
+ when ('both') {
+ $output = $out . $err
+ }
+ default {
+ $logger->error("Unknown stream: '$stream'");
+ }
+ }
+ if ( $output =~ $regex ) { return $1 }
if ( $status == $PROCESS_FAILED ) {
$logger->info($err);
return $PROCESS_FAILED;
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