Hi Jakub,
Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, 2014-03-29, 04:00:
> >it would be useful if adequate would indicate in its exit code if
> >it emitted warnings or not.
>
> Agreed. But this will almost certainly break piuparts, so I'll have
> to talk to piuparts folks first.
This could be solved by making the one or the other behaviour optional
via a commandline switch.
But no hurries if you want to implement this properly. :-)
> >This would be helpful for using adequate within autopkgtest tests.
>
> adequate has a DEP-8 test that checks if it is adequate-clean.
Saw them, yes.
> But I haven't thought about using it in other packages'
> autopkgtests. Very clever, thanks for the hint. :-)
Oh? This seemed so obvious to me. As it would be made for that. :-)
> In the mean time you can exploit the fact that non-empty stderr is
> by default considered an error:
>
> adequate whizzytex >&2
Ah, good point. Will do that.
> Or, if you use the allow-stderr restriction, you can use this
> monstrosity:
>
> adequate whizzytex 2>&1 | ( ! grep . )
Saw that in adequate's own autopkgtests and wasn't really sure what it
should do. (Wasn't aware of this kind of "!" usage inside parentheses
in POSIX sh.)
Regards, Axel
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