Bug#399178: [Buildd-tools-devel] Bug#399178: noisy warnings: "Unable to locate package..."

Martin Michlmayr tbm at cyrius.com
Mon Feb 5 12:34:35 CET 2007


* Roger Leigh <rleigh at whinlatter.ukfsn.org> [2007-02-04 23:00]:
> While it would be possible to send all stderr output to /dev/null, I
> don't feel that this is appropriate, because it will discard all error
> reporting when running apt-cache.  One solution I am now looking at is
> sending stderr to the package log (rather than the main log) for just
> apt-cache invokations.  Errors and warnings will still be logged, but
> they will then not get mailed to you separately.  Does that sound OK.

Sounds good to me.
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Martin Michlmayr
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