Bug#730567: libglib2.0-bin: unhelpful error message "Error: Timeout was reached" from gdbus

[Vincent Lefevre]

Package: libglib2.0-bin
Version: 2.36.4-1
Severity: normal

It appears that gdbus can output the error message:

  Error: Timeout was reached

so that when it is used in a script, the user cannot know where
this message comes from and is confused. See

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729527

for instance.

When outputting an error message, a utility must always identifies
itself. Here, it should be:

  gdbus: Error: Timeout was reached

or

  gdbus error: Timeout was reached

(but since the error message comes from libgio, I suppose that the
former string is simpler to generate, e.g. with "gdbus: %s").

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libglib2.0-bin depends on:
ii  libc6            2.17-96
ii  libelfg0         0.8.13-4
ii  libglib2.0-0     2.36.4-1
ii  libglib2.0-data  2.36.4-1

libglib2.0-bin recommends no packages.

libglib2.0-bin suggests no packages.

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