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

[Jonathan McDowell]

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.

J.

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