Control: retitle -1 dput: User-facing output for DputUploadFatalException Control: tags -1 + confirmed Control: severity -1 minor
On 27-Jan-2025, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > dput currently prints a distracting backtrace (with colors and some parts in > bold) when an upload to a host is not allowed because a distribution name > mismatch. > > It'd be better if it printed the error message and no backtrace. Agreed, this can be improved to print a message better directed to a user of the program, with no developer-information backtrace output. -- \ “Program testing can be a very effective way to show the | `\ presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing | _o__) their absence.” —Edsger W. Dijkstra | Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>
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