Bug#354877: subversion: data written to stderr in pre-commit hook is not output by the client

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: subversion
Version: 1.2.3dfsg1-3
Severity: normal

In a pre-commit hook, I have a line

  echo "some message" >&2

as an information message to make sure that some format checking is
done. The Subversion manual says:

  If the hook program writes data to stderr, it will be marshalled
  back to the client.

But this message is output only in case of failure (instead of
everytime).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-20050829
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages subversion depends on:
ii  db4.3-util                 4.3.29-4      Berkeley v4.3 Database Utilities
ii  libapr0                    2.0.55-4      the Apache Portable Runtime
ii  libc6                      2.3.5-13      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libexpat1                  1.95.8-3      XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libneon24                  0.24.7.dfsg-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii  libsvn0                    1.2.3dfsg1-3  shared libraries used by Subversio
ii  patch                      2.5.9-4       Apply a diff file to an original

subversion recommends no packages.

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