Package: debianutils
Version: 5.23.1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: michel.dec...@orange.com

Dear Maintainer,

Since version 5.23.1, the 'run-parts --list' command produces an error
message on standard output when the directory passed as argument does
not exist / is not readable. This is different from the previous version
5.21, which produced error messages on the error output.

As an example, consider this script extract :

for x in $(run-parts --list /foo) ; do echo "PART: $x" ; done

Using 5.21 version on an environment where directory /foo is missing, 
the script produces an error on stderr and nothing on stdout, as expected : 

$ for x in $(run-parts --list /foo) ; do echo "PART: $x" ; done
run-parts: failed to open directory /foo: No such file or directory

However, using 5.23.1 version on the same environment, the output is : 

$ for x in $(run-parts --list /foo) ; do echo "PARTS: $x" ; done
PART: run-parts:
PART: Skipping
PART: "/foo";
PART: failed
PART: to
PART: opendir:
PART: No
PART: such
PART: file
PART: or
PART: directory

and nothing is printed on stderr.

With the new version 5.23.1, I expected an error message on stderr and
nothing on stdout, as in the previous version.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/3 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debianutils depends on:
ii  libc6  2.41-4

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