Package: cowbuilder
Version: 0.70
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Dear Maintainer,
While trying to run cowbuilder --update quietly from a cronjob (using
redirections), I noticed that it currently sends benign (info) messages to
stderr.
I assume those are benign since they appear with the info level everytime I run
cowbuilder.
Also, a comment in the code suggests at least one of those messages is expected.
Please consider sending those messages to stdout instead (see attached patch
against latest version of cowbuilder).
How to reproduce:
1. Create a new chroot environment
2. Try to update it using cowbuilder --update while redirecting stdout to
/dev/null
root@localhost# cowbuilder --update --architecture i386 --distribution jessie
--basepath /var/cache/pbuilder/base-jessie_i386.cow > /dev/null
I: removed stale ilistfile /var/cache/pbuilder/build//cow.26250/.ilist
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cowbuilder depends on:
ii cowdancer 0.70
ii libc6 2.16-0experimental1
ii pbuilder 0.213
cowbuilder recommends no packages.
cowbuilder suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- a/cowdancer-0.73/cowbuilder.c 2014-01-04 13:31:58.000000000 +0100
+++ b/cowdancer-0.73/cowbuilder.c 2014-01-04 13:33:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -198,13 +198,11 @@
/* if there was no ilist file in the beginning, that's not a
problem.
*/
- fprintf(stderr, "I: unlink for ilistfile %s failed, it didn't exist?\n",
- ilistfile);
+ printf("I: unlink for ilistfile %s failed, it didn't exist?\n", ilistfile);
}
else
{
- fprintf(stderr, "I: removed stale ilistfile %s\n",
- ilistfile);
+ printf("I: removed stale ilistfile %s\n", ilistfile);
}
free(ilistfile);
