control: tags -1 -help On 20-12-15 15:03, Paul Gevers wrote: > I am looking into fixing bug 807353¹ against my package dbconfig-common. > dbconfig-common is written in shell, such that it can easily be sourced > and used in maintainer scripts. The issue is that when you call a > sourced function in the test part of an if-then-fi statement, the "set > -e" option of the calling script doesn't propagate into the sourced > function. Unfortunately, dbconfig-commons error handling relies on that > behavior. I found a (slightly hacky, but probably adequate) solution for > bash², but that doesn't seem to be generic enough for e.g. dash as it > relies on the errtrace option. Does anybody here have an idea how to > solve this properly? I think I'll just have to add a "|| return $?" in several dozens of locations and hope I don't miss any. Anybody a better idea? And I'll probably contact the packages that call dbconfig-common in such an if statement to reconsider. Paul
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