Package: nullmailer Version: 1:1.00-1 Severity: normal Hello,
nullmailer should output errors on stderr (using 'ferr' in source code) instead of output errors on stdout (using 'fout' in source code). Reason: I tried to build the package clamav in a sid chroot, but failed because clamav expects /usr/sbin/sendmail to output a version string, which nullmailer doesn't support. clamav starts /usr/sbin/sendmail with the option -d0 and grabbs the second word of the first line of output as version string. Have a look at the last few mails of bug #314914 for more details. Nullmailer outputs the string "No recipients were listed.", but on stdout. Thus the configure script of clamav takes a non-parsable string portion as version string and fails to build (on systems having nullmailer installed). I know that it's fairly ugly having clamav detecting Sendmail's version this way. But nevertheless I think nullmailer should output errors on stderr, not on stdout. The changes should be minimal, but sadly my sid-chroot doesn't build nullmailer at all using g++-4.0, not even with including the patch from bug #315601. Yours Micha -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages nullmailer depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-9 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii ucf 2.002 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages nullmailer recommends: ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon] 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
