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"dnf remove --duplicates" reports an error if no packages are duplicated

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      .`dnf remove --duplicates` no longer exits with non-zero exit code and error message

      Previously, if you ran the `dnf remove --duplicates` command when no duplicate packages were present on the system, `dnf` exited with non-zero exit code and the `No duplicated packages found for removal.` error on standard error output (`stderr`). With this update, `dnf` now exits with `0` and does not write anything on `stderr`. Note that the same issue was also fixed for the `dnf remove --oldinstallonly` command when no older versions of `installonly` packages are installed.
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      .`dnf remove --duplicates` no longer exits with non-zero exit code and error message Previously, if you ran the `dnf remove --duplicates` command when no duplicate packages were present on the system, `dnf` exited with non-zero exit code and the `No duplicated packages found for removal.` error on standard error output (`stderr`). With this update, `dnf` now exits with `0` and does not write anything on `stderr`. Note that the same issue was also fixed for the `dnf remove --oldinstallonly` command when no older versions of `installonly` packages are installed.
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      Description of problem:
      yum remove --duplicates and dnf remove --duplicates both return stderr when no duplicates are found. Since this is the expected replacement for yum-complete-transactions, the command is introducing an error where none should be present.

      Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
      4.7.0
      Installed: dnf-0:4.7.0-16.el8_8.noarch at Tue Aug 29 17:51:15 2023
      Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at Wed Mar 8 10:33:55 2023

      Installed: rpm-0:4.14.3-26.el8.x86_64 at Tue Aug 29 17:50:53 2023
      Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at Mon Dec 19 17:08:54 2022
      4.7.0
      Installed: dnf-0:4.7.0-16.el8_8.noarch at Tue Aug 29 17:51:15 2023
      Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at Wed Mar 8 10:33:55 2023

      Installed: rpm-0:4.14.3-26.el8.x86_64 at Tue Aug 29 17:50:53 2023
      Built : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> at Mon Dec 19 17:08:54 2022

      How reproducible:
      Consistently reproducible.

      Steps to Reproduce:
      1. dnf remove --duplicates 1>stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt
      2. OR
      3. yum remove --duplicates 1>stdout.txt 2>stderr.txt

      Actual results:
      cat stdout.txt
      Updating Subscription Management repositories.
      el8 84 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
      biw-8-server-rpms 83 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
      Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for RHEL 8 x86_ 137 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:00
      oracle-instanclient21-for-rhel8-x86_64 77 kB/s | 1.3 kB 00:00
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStre 136 kB/s | 4.5 kB 00:00
      SALT-PROJECT-3005-8-x86_64 90 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
      EPEL-8-x86_64 137 kB/s | 2.3 kB 00:00
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - BaseOS 114 kB/s | 4.1 kB 00:00

      cat stderr.txt
      Error: No duplicated packages found for removal.

      Expected results:
      If no duplicate packages are found, the command should exit with a return value of 0. It has removed all duplicate packages it has discovered, in this case, zero.

      Additional info:

              rhn-support-ppisar Petr Pisar
              jira-bugzilla-migration RH Bugzilla Integration
              packaging-team-maint packaging-team-maint
              Eva Mrakova Eva Mrakova
              Mariya Pershina Mariya Pershina
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