XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
From:
josh@joshtriplett.org
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.22.17
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc:
josh@joshtriplett.org
If you run `dpkg -l doesnotexist`, it launches a pager showing
completely empty output, while printing the error
`dpkg-query: no packages found matching doesnotexist`
outside of the pager, hidden until exiting the pager.
`dpkg -l dpkg doesnotexist` will show the output for `dpkg` in the
pager, while showing the error for `doesnotexist` outside the pager.
That's slightly less of an issue because the pager screen isn't
completely blank, but it still doesn't seem ideal.
In the case where there's *zero* output, I think dpkg shouldn't be
launching the pager at all.
In the case where there's *some* output, ideally I'd love to have the
error output sent to the pager as well when automatically launching a
pager, if stdout and stderr are both pointing to a terminal, and only
kept separate when *not* launching a pager or if stderr is going
somewhere else.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: arm64
Kernel: Linux 6.12.17-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-6
ii libc6 2.41-3
ii liblzma5 5.6.4-1
ii libmd0 1.1.0-2+b1
ii libselinux1 3.8-4
ii libzstd1 1.5.6+dfsg-2
ii tar 1.35+dfsg-3.1
ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 2.9.31
pn debsig-verify <none>
-- no debconf information
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