Bug#882130: fixed in reportbug 7.1.8
control: tags 882130 + patch
On 5 Jan 2018 Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> this fix removes the error output of apt-cache showsrc when there is no
> deb-src.
>
> reportbug-7.1.7:
>
> $ reportbug release.debian.org
> [..]
> Choose the request type: 7
> Please enter the name of the package: ros-bond-core
> Checking status database...
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
> This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]?
>
> reportbug-7.1.8:
>
> $ reportbug release.debian.org
> [..]
> Choose the request type: 7
> Please enter the name of the package: ros-bond-core
> Checking status database...
> This package doesn't appear to exist; continue? [y|N|?]?
>
> The "E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list" is
> missing, because it's redirected to stdout. But in this case it helps a
> lot. I was not able to reproduce the libc6 bug, but I would propose to
> redirect stderr for that command to /dev/null (as done for others as
> well) instead.
Here is a merge request to restore stderr output:
https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug/merge_requests/8
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