Debian Bug report logs - #338687
bzip2 method spews junk to stderr

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: aptitude: when bzip2 fails and emits error output, screen corruption results

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:50:56 -0500

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.0-3
Severity: minor

If the packages list for a source is corrupted such that bunzip2 fails
to decompress it, it produces output on stderr which corrupts the
terminal display. A Ctrl-L forces a redraw and clears the corruption.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.1-mm1+bd1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.2   Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-3  GCC support library
ii  libncursesw5                  5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2             2.0.16-1   type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.0-3    English manual for aptitude, a ter

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Message #14 received at 338687@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>

To: 338687@bugs.debian.org, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>

Subject: state of #338687

Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 23:34:46 +0200

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Hello Daniel.

How do you propose to fix this in apt? Don't output errors from subprocesses at all?
Maybe, you can just filter stderr?

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor

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