Re: too much for an NMU?
re: #34423: pilot-xfer: "press hotsync" should be on stderr
"Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com> writes:
> "David H. Silber" <palm@orbits.com>, in an immanent manifestation of
> deity, wrote:
> >I don't think that this is a real bug. This is somebody's preference.
> >(Unless a whole lot of people agree.)
> I think it's a bug as have the other people who responded. I want to be
> able to log the output of pilot-xfer but can't.
I think I understand the argument, but I also think I disagree. I
think it's a Bad Thing to make this work differently from the upstream
version, whatever we do. Front-ends (e.g. pilot-manager, maybe
others) may look for the output on a particular stream and be
surprised (and fail to work) when it doesn't appear where they expect.
I've been thinking of hacking up an Emacs interface to pilot-link, and
I want to make something anyone can use, not something Debian-specific.
In response to the original report (which I have onscreen now), the
output *can* be filtered now, it just requires more intelligent
filters. :-)
If we can persuade upstream to make the change, then ok, otherwise, I
*strongly* vote no. The report should either be forwarded or closed,
probably the former. In NO WAY should it be "fixed" by us! Debian
does not exist in a vaccuum.
Cc'd to the bug report because I think this is a *very* important
point. I've set reply-to back to the list, please adjust if really
necessary.
cheers
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