Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On 2019-08-14 at 07:09:19, Philip Withnall wrote: > In every situation where I’ve seen warnings (compile time, or run time) > hidden from developers, those warnings have very rarely been fixed. > Making them visible has increased the number of warnings which have > been fixed. > > Filing bugs

Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-14 Thread brian m. carlson
On 2019-08-14 at 07:09:19, Philip Withnall wrote: > Sorry, I think you’re conflating two different types of programs here. > Command line applications like git have very different output > requirements on stderr/stdout from graphical programs. Command line > programs don’t normally use GTK, so

Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-14 Thread Philip Withnall
On Tue, 2019-08-13 at 23:16 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On 2019-08-13 at 06:12:30, Philip Withnall wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I can’t speak for the Debian project, but as an upstream GLib > > developer > > I can say such an environment variable would not be welcome > > upstream. > > > > Hiding

Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-13 Thread brian m. carlson
On 2019-08-13 at 06:12:30, Philip Withnall wrote: > Hi, > > I can’t speak for the Debian project, but as an upstream GLib developer > I can say such an environment variable would not be welcome upstream. > > Hiding such warnings makes them less likely to be fixed. It’s a way of > sweeping bugs

Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-13 Thread Philip Withnall
Hi, I can’t speak for the Debian project, but as an upstream GLib developer I can say such an environment variable would not be welcome upstream. Hiding such warnings makes them less likely to be fixed. It’s a way of sweeping bugs under the carpet which I don’t want to encourage. Each warning

Bug#934655: libglib2.0-0: provide environment variable to suppress or redirect logging

2019-08-12 Thread brian m. carlson
Package: libglib2.0-0 Version: 2.60.6-1 Severity: normal Currently, GLib and various other GTK+-related software provide logging, which goes to stdout or stderr. Much of this logging is developer focused and basically warns developers that they are doing questionable things that one or another