[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#631423: unexpected result of closed stderr with System.Log.Logger

[Joey Hess]

Package: libghc-hslogger-dev
Version: 1.1.4+dfsg1-1
Severity: wishlist

Sometimes I close stderr in a child process just before it runs a noisy
command. Perhaps it's generally better to reopen stderr to /dev/null,
but closing it often works.

Unless the command is run by something in System.Cmd.Utils, and
debugging is turned on. Then my program just silently exits.

I think that all things considered, when faced with a debug message
to output, and no stderr to write to, it would be better for hslogger
to skip the message, rather than throw an exception.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libghc-hslogger-dev depends on:
ii  ghc [libghc-unix-dev-2.4. 7.0.3-1        The Glasgow Haskell Compilation sy
ii  libc6                     2.13-7         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libffi5                   3.0.9-7        Foreign Function Interface library
pn  libghc-base-dev-4.3.1.0-7 <none>         (no description available)
pn  libghc-containers-dev-0.4 <none>         (no description available)
pn  libghc-directory-dev-1.1. <none>         (no description available)
ii  libghc-mtl-dev [libghc-mt 2.0.1.0-2+b1   Haskell monad transformer library 
ii  libghc-network-dev [libgh 2.3.0.2-1+b1   Haskell network library for GHC
pn  libghc-old-locale-dev-1.0 <none>         (no description available)
pn  libghc-process-dev-1.0.1. <none>         (no description available)
pn  libghc-time-dev-1.2.0.3-a <none>         (no description available)
ii  libgmp10                  2:5.0.1+dfsg-7 Multiprecision arithmetic library

libghc-hslogger-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages libghc-hslogger-dev suggests:
pn  libghc-hslogger-doc        <none>        (no description available)
ii  libghc-hslogger-prof       1.1.4+dfsg1-1 The Haskell Logging Framework, GHC

-- no debconf information

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