On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 3:06 PM, Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: > Hello Ian and Felipe, > > On Wed, Feb 21 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > >> Hi. Thanks for your feedback. I'm always interested in making things >> smoother. > > Ditto. > >> The reason I'm asking all of these questions about which docs you read >> is not to tell you to RTFM. It's that I would like to understand how >> and where best to communicate this information. There's more room in >> the manual than in an error message. > > I suggest that this kind of issue could be resolved if the final output > of the failed command, which is prefixed with '!', included hints such > as the one that says "consult --overwrite documentation". As it stands > such hints appear above this final section. > > dgit produces a lot of output, but there already exists a clearly > designated "error summary" section. The most important hints should be > moved into that section. > > Lines like "dgit: Wanted tag maintainer view tag (debian/0.11-5) on dgit > server, but not found" are much less important and can remain in the > general output.
This is a very good suggestion indeed. Putting the error message in a dedicated block at the end should help a lot. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
