forwarded 346463 [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks dude On Sun, Jan 08, 2006, Juergen Kreileder wrote: > Package: p7zip > Version: 4.30.dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > > Currently errors get logged to stdout, they should get printed to stderr:
Upstream (Igor Pavlov) does not want to make different outputs for messages, even though he's been asked several times to do so :( > ,---- > | # 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. I am tempted to suggest you use lzma, that is more like a gzip/bzip2 tool since the last version (4.43-2). But I agree that it would be better to have a non verbose output by default. -- adn Mohammed Adnène Trojette
