Package: p7zip Version: 4.30.dfsg-1 Severity: normal Currently errors get logged to stdout, they should get printed to stderr:
,---- | # 7za a foo.7z no_such_file > /dev/null | # echo $? | 1 | # 7za l foo.7z | | 7-Zip (A) 4.30 beta Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Igor Pavlov 2005-11-18 | p7zip Version 4.30 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on) | | Listing archive: foo.7z | | Date Time Attr Size Compressed Name | ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------ | ------------------- ----- ------------ ------------ ------------ | 0 files `---- Also, please provide a quiet version which writes absolutely nothing to stdout (and stderr) if everything is OK. The verbose output makes it hard to replace gzip/bzip2 in existing scripts. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages p7zip depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-6 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 p7zip recommends no packages. -- no debconf information Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://blog.blackdown.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]