On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's debug output, it is useful when debugging and you need the output, > e.g. when fixing bugs and the user can just be asked to run the command > from the terminal and post the output to help in debugging the bug > report. Generally, the debug output for a particular release tends to > reflect the issues which upstream were working on most intensively > before that release and therefore can have a direct impact on the > likelihood of new bugs or regressions in old bugs. > > It's not clutter. If you don't want to see it, run the command and > redirect stderr. debug output should certainly not be output by default in released versions without a command-line or configuration option turning it on. l for one don't want ls doing something like this: ls: starting up ls: checking for bad filesystems ls: searching for files in /home/foo/some/path foo bar/ baz/ ls: 1 file found ls: 2 directories found -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
