Package: debhelper
Version: 7.4.2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
I encountered a weird transient build failure today; dpkg-architecture
randomly failed and so a debhelper command fell over. The build
succeeded at a second attempt, so I guess it must have been a hardware
problem or something. However, it was rather frustrating that debhelper
threw away the error message from dpkg-architecture, which might have
been informative in some way, and simply said "dpkg-architecture
failed".
The following patch would make errors a bit more helpful.
diff --git a/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm b/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm
index 5a0b794..1d41ffc 100644
--- a/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm
+++ b/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ sub excludefile {
sub dpkg_architecture_value {
my $var = shift;
- my $value=`dpkg-architecture -q$var 2>/dev/null` ||
error("dpkg-architecture failed");
+ my $value=`dpkg-architecture -q$var` ||
_error_exitcode("dpkg-architecture -q$var");
chomp $value;
return $value;
}
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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