tags + wontfix severity wishlist stop The main thrust of this bug report (about the fprintf) was fixed ages ago upstream (I think in response to this bug report, so that would have been back in 2000. It was certainly fixed by version 1.2.0, released in 2001)
I'm afraid I suffered decision-failure when contemplating the second "it shouldn't go to stderr" section of the bug, which is why I've left it fallow for all these years. I thought at the time, and still think, that many of the things that might cause ssh-askpass to fail will also cause the error pop-up to fail, at which point you'll need to look in your .xsession-errors to find out what's up anyway. In the particular case of failed keyboard-grab, it's quite likely that the pop-up would still work, but you're going to know that something was wrong by the fact that ssh-askpass didn't end up prompting you for input. I'm open to persuasion that there should be some mention of the fact that errors are logged to stderr, although I do feel that that is a case of stating the obvious, and that we could end up adding such statements to every manpage in the distribution, which would be somewhat pointless, as those who do not already know that are also those who don't read manpages, on the whole. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
