Bug#777041: xbmc: unable to disable extensive debug logging

[Balint Reczey]

Control: tags -1 + pending - wontfix

Hi Jonathan,

On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 22:48:48 +0000 Jonathan McDowell <noodles at earth.li> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 07:48:42PM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > 2015-11-29 19:24 GMT+01:00 Jonathan McDowell <noodles at earth.li>:
> > > On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 10:14:55AM +0400, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > >> > Looking at my XBMC which was started less than 2 days ago and breaking
> > >> > down the log entry types I see:
> > >> >
> > >> >       9 WARNING:
> > >> >      78 ERROR:
> > >> >     320 INFO:
> > >> >     390 NOTICE:
> > >> >    7366 DEBUG:
> > >> >
> > >> > This debug output is considerable compared to the normal output. I
> > >> > understand the desire to have the debugging enabled by default to ease
> > >> > support, but the GUI configuration should be showing this is the case
> > >> > and it should be possible to turn it off.
> > >
> > >> I think the situation improved a lot with latest kodi packages. Could
> > >> you please test them?
> > >>
> > >> Debugging is not enabled in debian/rules anymore by default.
> > >
> > > I'm running XBMC on a jessie box so I'm a bit wary about updating it
> > > all; are there any plans to update the backport.debian.org packages to
> > > 15.2 final rather than 15.2-rc3?
> 
> > They are practically the same[1] thus I did not find it important, but
> > I'll update it because probably there are numerous users waiting for
> > that.  I was also waiting for feedback on bugs like this one to see if
> > I have to make additional changes before I create the backport.
> 
> > It sould be nice if you could upgrade and test the current version to
> > see if this bug is still open.
> 
> I have upgraded to 15.2~rc3+dfsg1-1~bpo8+1 and I'm still seeing loads of
> debug output, including every keypress:
> 
> 22:34:52 T:140404543895616   DEBUG: OnKey: backspace (0xf008) pressed, action is Back
> 
> All visible debug options in the GUI (System -> Debugging) are disabled.
Debugging was set on by default by upstream, but I have now disabled it by default[1].
The next upload will contain the fix.

Thanks for reporting the issue and testing it again!

Cheers,
Balint

[1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/kodi.git/commit/?id=fe87a47be53c6bd9cf55b26ff4c2d073156faa6a