Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.13 I fear that this has been the behaviour of dpkg for a long time, but nevertheless, I think it is a bug and should be fixed.
When I use dpkg --no-act, dpkg shows messages on stderr, and I can't just do this: dpkg --no-act --purge somepackage | less If I tell a program to do something and the program can't do that, that's an error. In this case, however, I'm merely asking dpkg what he would do, so the messages are not of the "sorry, I can't do that" type, but instead "Look, this is what I would do". For this reason, I believe these messages (and, in general, any program with --no-act, --dry-run or equivalent options) should be shown on stdout, as they are not really errors. If this is not possible by default, please consider adding an environment variable to achieve this. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
