Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:36:39PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Adam Heath writes ("Re: comments/string changes and issues with dpkg's messages"):
> > ohshite should really be for internal errors only. Things that "Should Not
> > Happen(tm)".
>
> This is totally 100% INcorrect. ohshite is used nearly everywhere for
> system call failures, eg `disk full'.
But ohshite already prints strerror(errno), so it could eg print
dpkg: /var/lib/dpkg/status: No space left on device
dpkg: /var/lib/dpkg/available: No such file or repertory
instead of
dpkg: failed to write status record about `tcl8.4' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' for reading: No such file or repertory
in order to remove many cryptic error messages from PO files.
Denis
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