Bug#337364: debconf: Separate stdout/stderr in maintainer scripts using debconf

2005-11-03 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:34:43AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here is a patch that uses a simple redirection to preserve the original > > stdout so that we can deal with normal output in a different way. > > This patch would break the hundreds of daemons that contain po

Bug#337364: debconf: Separate stdout/stderr in maintainer scripts using debconf

2005-11-03 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is a patch that uses a simple redirection to preserve the original > stdout so that we can deal with normal output in a different way. This patch would break the hundreds of daemons that contain postinst scripts that work around the original debconf misfeature by cl

Bug#337364: debconf: Separate stdout/stderr in maintainer scripts using debconf

2005-11-03 Thread herbert
Package: debconf Version: 1.4.30.13 Severity: normal Many maintainer scripts produce output on stdout and error on stderr. In particular, init.d scripts will write messages such as Starting proxy server: squid. to stdout. It would be very convenient to be able to separate messages such