version info prints to stderr, not stdout

Bug #1834102 reported by Steve Ward
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pbzip2
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

$ pbzip2 --version
Parallel BZIP2 v1.1.9 - by: Jeff Gilchrist [http://compression.ca]
[Apr. 13, 2014] (uses libbzip2 by Julian Seward)
Major contributions: Yavor Nikolov <email address hidden>

Version information is printed to stderr. Please consider printing it to stdout instead.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dversion.html
GNU Coding Standards: --version
> The standard --version option should direct the program to print information about its name, version, origin and legal status, all on standard output, and then exit successfully.

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.