On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:51:59 -0700 Ryan Niebur wrote: [...] > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > > Well, I am not sure that this proposed new behavior (i.e.: exit with > > non-zero status when a package does not exist) is a good idea. [...] > > The cron.daily job would try to > > run /usr/share/apt-listbugs/aptcleanup, which would exit with error, > > and hence the pinnings in /etc/apt/preferences would not be properly > > cleaned up... > > > > this is why we would have to adapt aptcleanup as well..
Fair enough. Just please make sure that apt-listbugs exits with a special unique (non-zero) exit status, then, so that we can easily distinguish this kind of error from other ones... > > > As a consequence, I am under the impression that the behavior of > > apt-listbugs on non-existent packages is *intended*, rather than a > > *bug*. > > > > Ryan (maintainer of apt-listbugs), do you agree with my analysis? > > > > not at all, I think this is a bug, and I will fix it. Wonderful! I will do my best to review your commits, as always. BTW, please remember to run git-tag.sh ... [...] > returning 0 (meaning "Success!!!!") and not giving an error message is > *very* wrong behavior imo. anyways, I will propose a fix this bug when > I get home. assuming I can convince you, I will then commit it. ;) I think you are already convincing me... ;-) > > oh, and s/maintainer/co-maintainer/, this is as much (if not more) > your package than mine. :) Well, OK (thank you). P.S.: Ryan, I assume that our private conversation stopped on Wed, 1 Jul 2009 because of your work commitments (I sent two messages to you, but got no replies so far). Or are we experiencing e-mail problems? -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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