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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000162 | file | General | public | 2020-05-17 12:54 | 2020-06-07 17:41 |
| Reporter | vinc17 | Assigned To | christos | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 5.38 | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 5.39 | ||||
| Summary | 0000162: should allow one to provided a non-existing -e / --exclude test | ||||
| Description | Currently, if one provides a non-existing -e / --exclude test, one gets a fatal error. This is a portability issue, for instance if one wishes to exclude some new test that has been added in some version of "file", but one uses various machines, having different versions of "file". With recent versions of "file", the test would be excluded. And with older versions, the test does not exist yet, so that excluding it should not change anything (instead of triggering an error like now). Example: the json test was added quite recently, and this was an issue, at least last year: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923396 Solution 1: Just ignore non-existing tests, because they can be future tests not available yet. So this is safe. Solution 2: Output a warning to stderr (e.g. to warn the user in case he would have mistyped the test name), and add away to disable the warnings (useful for scripts). Redirecting stderr to /dev/null would not be a solution as this would hide error messages too, which are useful to diagnostic problems. This could be implemented as an option in addition to -e / --exclude, such as -q / --quiet. This could also be an option in place of -e / --exclude, such as --exclude-quiet (I would say that this is mainly for scripts, so that a short option is not necessary). | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-17 12:54 | vinc17 | New Issue | |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Assigned To | => christos |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Status | new => assigned |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Status | assigned => resolved |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Fixed in Version | => 5.39 |
| 2020-06-07 17:41 | christos | Note Added: 0003422 |
