Package: lintian
Version: 2.16.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
STR:
| % lintian --profile doesnotexist .
| Cannot find profile doesnotexist (in /usr/share/lintian/profiles) at
/usr/share/perl5/Lintian/Profile.pm line 144.
| Lintian::Profile::new("Lintian::Profile", "doesnotexist",
ARRAY(0x55e94cae1aa8), HASH(0x55e94cc9e2f0)) called at /usr/bin/lintian line 215
| dplint::load_profile("doesnotexist") called at
/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 1432
| main::load_profile_and_configure_tags() called at
/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm line 650
| main::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46
| eval {...} called at /usr/bin/lintian line 46
| main::__ANON__("/usr/share/lintian/commands/lintian.pm") called at
/usr/bin/lintian line 114
| dplint::run_tool("/usr/bin/lintian", "lintian") called at
/usr/bin/lintian line 290
| dplint::main() called at /usr/bin/lintian line 359
| % echo $?
| 255
Whereas the manual page says that lintian returns with exit code 2
on run-time errors:
| % man lintian | less -p "EXIT STATUS"
| EXIT STATUS
| 0 No policy violations or major errors detected. (There may have
been warnings, though.)
|
| 1 Policy violations or major errors detected.
|
| 2 Lintian run-time error. An error message is sent to stderr.
Maybe a non-existing profile doesn't count as run-time error(?),
but if so this might be worth mentioning in the documentation.
(At least it was non-obvious for someone contributing to
jenkins-debian-glue as well as myself when debugging this.)
Thanks for consideration!
regards
-mika-
