Bug#219928: debian-installer: build failures on sparc

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:20:28AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > Please see attached patch.
> 
> this patch violates against the exception usage guidelines, if you don't
> want to see a backtrace, catch the exception and print the error
> message.

Catch an exception we just threw?  Why should we throw it just to
catch it in the next line, print the text and exit?

The raise is not in some function that fails but in the main
program.

MfG
        Goswin