Bug#341906: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#341906: octave prints copyright/debugging information on stdout instead of stderr

[John W. Eaton]

On  9-Jan-2006, Frederik Eaton wrote:

| On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 10:33:40AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
| > * Frederik Eaton <frederik at a5.repetae.net> [2006-01-09 03:07]:
| > 
| > > You're right, mysql seems to print to stdout, while "perl -d" writes
| > > directly to the terminal. In any case, I don't see a reason not to
| > > adopt my suggestion.
| > > 
| > > The convincing argument is that one typically wants to be able to have
| > > rather strict control over what the output of a program is. When
| > > 'stdout' gets cluttered with other messages, it loses its usefulness
| > > very quickly.
| > 
| > Why doesn't the -q command option suit your needs?
| 
| One can only put so many options on the "#!" line, I think the limit
| is 1. I could remember to put "-q" in every octave script, and
| complain when I need to add another option and can't, but then, why
| not have a sensible default?

Hi,

I think you already argued this point on the Octave mailing list, and
I was not convinced that the change was needed.  Would it really be
good to have the Debian package include a special patch for this
change that was not a part of the upstream Octave distribution?

jwe