Bug#156317: dpkg-source: confusing error when source format is unsupported
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
aps100@cyclone:~/tmp$ cat hello_1.3-18.dsc
Format: MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Source: hello
Version: 1.3-18
Binary: hello
Maintainer: Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.0.1.0
Files:
be75cfb3287cda4e91e45327428c8ca1 87701 hello_1.3.orig.tar.gz
e9406a5ff284a74b23a98538be5735e8 5092 hello_1.3-18.diff.gz
aps100@cyclone:~/tmp$ dpkg-source -x hello_1.3-18.dsc
dpkg-source: error: Unsupported format of .dsc file (1.0)
I would have expected:
dpkg-source: error: Unsupported format of .dsc file (MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO)
--- /usr/bin/dpkg-source 2002-07-14 21:19:49.000000000 +0100
+++ dpkg-source 2002-08-11 18:10:49.000000000 +0100
@@ -518,7 +593,7 @@
if (defined $fi{'S Format'}) {
if (not handleformat($fi{'S Format'})) {
- &error("Unsupported format of .dsc file ($dscformat)");
+ &error("Unsupported format of .dsc file (" . $fi{'S Format'} . ")"); }
$dscformat=$fi{'S Format'};
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cyclone 2.4.19 #7 Sat Aug 3 16:06:09 BST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.12.90.0.15-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.5-1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.79.1-14 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.4-11 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.0-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.0-6 Core Perl modules.
-- no debconf information
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