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

[Jonathan McDowell]

Package: xbmc
Version: 2:13.2+dfsg1-3~bpo70+1
Severity: normal

I'm hoping I'm just missing something here, but the Debian XBMC packages
do extensive debug logging out of the box, including logging every
directory scanned for updates, even when there is no change, and logging
several lines each time a key is pressed on the remote e.g:

09:52:25 T:140192028579744   DEBUG: Keyboard: scancode: 0x71, sym: 0x0114, unicode: 0x0000, modifier: 0x0
09:52:25 T:140192028579744   DEBUG: CAnnouncementManager - Announcement: OnScreensaverDeactivated from xbmc
09:52:25 T:140192028579744   DEBUG: GOT ANNOUNCEMENT, type: 4, from xbmc, message OnScreensaverDeactivated
09:52:25 T:140192028579744   DEBUG: OnKey: left (0xf082) pressed, screen saver/dpms woken up
09:52:26 T:140192028579744   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit () ------

I have set:

    <debug>
        <screenshotpath default="true"></screenshotpath>
        <showloginfo default="true">false</showloginfo>
    </debug>

in ~xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/guisettings.xml and tried:

        <loglevel hide="false">-1</loglevel>

in ~xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/advancedsettings.xml as well, but I still see
this debug output. Given that my XBMC box is on all the time and this
logging serves little purpose I'd like to be able to tone it down to
avoid the debug output (and I don't expect it to do this out of the bug
even when the GUI is saying there's no debug enabled).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.18.5+ (SMP w/4 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 xbmc depends on:
ii  fonts-roboto     1:4.3-3~bpo70+1
ii  libjs-iscroll    5.1.1+dfsg1-1~bpo70+1
ii  libjs-jquery     1.7.2+dfsg-1
ii  mesa-utils       8.0.1-2+b3
ii  python           2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-imaging   1.1.7-4+deb7u1
ii  ttf-dejavu-core  2.33-3
ii  x11-utils        7.7~1
ii  xbmc-bin         2:13.2+dfsg1-3~bpo70+1

xbmc recommends no packages.

xbmc suggests no packages.

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