Hi,

since I fell for this again, leaving me with a useless Packages.gz-file,
I wrote a small patch, so usage information is written to stderr instead
of stdout. Please include it in the next version. Thanks!

Cheers,

Wolf
-- 
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"Schleimer". (Frank Schümann)
diff -Nur apt-0.6.45.original/ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc 
apt-0.6.45/ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc
--- apt-0.6.45.original/ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc    2006-09-03 
16:43:32.077837750 +0000
+++ apt-0.6.45/ftparchive/apt-ftparchive.cc     2006-09-03 16:58:03.312286500 
+0000
@@ -547,12 +547,12 @@
 /* */
 bool ShowHelp(CommandLine &CmdL)
 {
-   ioprintf(cout,_("%s %s for %s %s compiled on %s %s\n"),PACKAGE,VERSION,
+   ioprintf(cerr,_("%s %s for %s %s compiled on %s %s\n"),PACKAGE,VERSION,
            COMMON_OS,COMMON_CPU,__DATE__,__TIME__);
    if (_config->FindB("version") == true)
       return true;
 
-   cout << 
+   cerr << 
     _("Usage: apt-ftparchive [options] command\n"
       "Commands: packages binarypath [overridefile [pathprefix]]\n"
       "          sources srcpath [overridefile [pathprefix]]\n"

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