Bug#873085: bsd-finger does not trap errors from ./configure

2018-10-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Christoph, On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 06:29:50PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Helmut Grohne wrote... > > > The debian policy section 4.6 requires that when build commands fail, > > the build should abort. In case bsd-finger's ./configure aborts, the > > error is ignored and the build attempts

Bug#873085: bsd-finger does not trap errors from ./configure

2018-10-26 Thread Christoph Biedl
Helmut Grohne wrote... > The debian policy section 4.6 requires that when build commands fail, > the build should abort. In case bsd-finger's ./configure aborts, the > error is ignored and the build attempts to continue potentially > resulting in a broken package. Adding "set -e; " (as suggested b

Bug#873085: bsd-finger does not trap errors from ./configure

2017-08-24 Thread Helmut Grohne
Source: bsd-finger Version: 0.17-15.1 Severity: serious Justification: policy 4.6 User: helm...@debian.org Usertags: rebootstrap The debian policy section 4.6 requires that when build commands fail, the build should abort. In case bsd-finger's ./configure aborts, the error is ignored and the build