On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 04:52:41PM +0200, Benoît SÉRIE wrote: > When installing packages, apt calls dpkg-preconfigure. > The message "Extracting templates from packages..." is written to > stderr. > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf/debconf.git/tree/dpkg-preconfigure#n173 > > IMHO, it should be written to stdout as this not an error.
When I added that message in 2005, I wrote it to stderr because stdout was already in use for the output from apt-extracttemplates, which is read and parsed by dpkg-preconfigure so adding human-readable text into it isn't a good idea. However, there's nothing to stop us using a separate pipe to communicate with apt-extracttemplates - it's just a bit more fiddly. I've done that now: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-debconf/debconf/-/commit/ad03066a1b69f634a81bfb3083a81de1900c91a9 Thanks, -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
