RT 4.2.10 regression: HTML -> text conversion message for scripts on STDERR

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Hi,

found a little regression in RT 4.2.10.

RT 4.2.10 started to log a info message which tool is used for HTML →
text conversion [1].

This leads to all scripts, which don’t change the default STDERR output
level (info), to log the above message to STDERR.

For example for sbin/rt-email-dashboards you get this send by cron every
hour.

Chris

[1] Use HTML::FormatExternal to allow external HTML → text formatters · bestpractical/rt@c40ba50 · GitHub

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found a little regression in RT 4.2.10.

RT 4.2.10 started to log a info message which tool is used for HTML →
text conversion [1].

This leads to all scripts, which don’t change the default STDERR
output level (info), to log the above message to STDERR.

For example for sbin/rt-email-dashboards you get this send by cron
every hour.

Hm; fair point. I’d probably be fine stepping this down to a debug
level warning. I do think that most of the automated command-line tools
should default to logging only at “warning”, but there’s no great way
to do that at current. 3ce1ac4ee and a2afc4e4 are a step in this
direction, but in 4.2 they explicitly only are used in non-cron
situations.

  • Alex