Package: dpkg Version: 1.22.17 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org
If you run `dpkg -l doesnotexist`, it launches a pager showing completely empty output, while printing the error `dpkg-query: no packages found matching doesnotexist` outside of the pager, hidden until exiting the pager. `dpkg -l dpkg doesnotexist` will show the output for `dpkg` in the pager, while showing the error for `doesnotexist` outside the pager. That's slightly less of an issue because the pager screen isn't completely blank, but it still doesn't seem ideal. In the case where there's *zero* output, I think dpkg shouldn't be launching the pager at all. In the case where there's *some* output, ideally I'd love to have the error output sent to the pager as well when automatically launching a pager, if stdout and stderr are both pointing to a terminal, and only kept separate when *not* launching a pager or if stderr is going somewhere else. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: arm64 Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6 ii libc6 2.41-3 ii liblzma5 5.6.4-1 ii libmd0 1.1.0-2+b1 ii libselinux1 3.8-4 ii libzstd1 1.5.6+dfsg-2 ii tar 1.35+dfsg-3.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 2.9.31 pn debsig-verify <none> -- no debconf information
