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From: John Lawrence Aspden <john <at> aspden.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: bugs in watch
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 13:07:07 +0000

Hi Guys,

I noticed a couple of things that look like bugs in 'watch' in
questions on unix.stackexchange.com (one of them is my own question).

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/101041/does-watch-only-monitor-the-visible-output

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/619461/why-does-watch-handle-programs-differently-depending-on-their-output

Both bugs are easy to provoke on my current stable debian.

john <at> dell-3537$ watch --version
watch from procps-ng 3.3.15

I john <at> dell-3537$ cat /etc/debian_version
10.6

I wondered if you guys already knew about them? If not, and if the
stackexchange questions aren't clear enough, can you point me to where
and how I should make formal bug reports?

John.

Message #8 received at 44635 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bernhard Voelker <mail <at> bernhard-voelker.de>
To: John Lawrence Aspden <john <at> aspden.com>, 44635 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#44635: bugs in watch
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:43:11 +0100

tag 44635 notabug
close 44635
stop

On 11/14/20 2:07 PM, John Lawrence Aspden wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I noticed a couple of things that look like bugs in 'watch' [...]

You have reached the GNU coreutils mailing list, and 'watch' is not part
of the coreutils [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/

Instead, 'watch' is part of the 'procps' package (at least least on my system),
so you're better off asking on their mailing list, bug tracker, or whatever
they are using [2][3].

[2] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps
[3] https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/master/Documentation/bugs.md

I'm therefore marking this as "not a bug" + "closed" in our bug tracker.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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