warning about config update is not written to stderr

Bug #806143 reported by Jonathan Wiltshire
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Back In Time
Fix Released
Undecided
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backintime (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
backintime (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

From Debian bug #629931:

Package: backintime-common
Version: 1.0.6-1
Severity: normal

Yesterday I found out that backintime did not perform backups since I
upgraded to wheezy. My cron script did not send a warning so I was
curious why backups silently fail.

It seems that backintime does not print warnings to stderr, so
redirecting output to /dev/null also dismisses any warnings:

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# /usr/bin/backintime -b > /dev/null
# /usr/bin/backintime -b

Back In Time
Version: 1.0.6

Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details.

INFO: The application needs to change the backup format. Start the GUI
to proceed. (As long as you do not you will not be able to make new
snapshots!)
WARNING: Backup not performed

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Please write warning messages like these to stderr so that backup errors
can be detected easily.

Changed in backintime (Debian):
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in backintime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Germar (germar) wrote :

This was fixed in 1.0.26

Changed in backintime:
status: New → Fix Released
Germar (germar)
Changed in backintime (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in backintime (Debian):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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