Hi, > as announced in our talk at debconf'18 [1] we intend a MBF about wrong > redirections in maintainer scripts. In general these are of the form > > foo 2>&1 1> /dev/null > > Here it was probably intended to send both stderr and stdout to /dev/null. > In reality the effect of this is to send only 1 to /dev/null, and to send > 2 to the file that 1 was sent to before that line.
when you file bugs, please also include a correct example. Looking at your talk this seems to be: foo >/dev/null 2>&1 Thanks, Carsten