Bug#353859: ttf-thryomanes: FTBFS: can't parse dependency

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Le Mardi 21 Février 2006 14:52, Justin Pryzby a écrit :
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: can't parse dependency xserver-xfree86 [!s390] | 
xfs-xtt (>> 1:1.3.0.1-3) | xfs (>= 4.0.2-1)
> > dpkg-gencontrol: error: error occoured while parsing Suggests 
> > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 2304
>
> Interesting .. I thought exit codes had only a 7 bit range?

So looking into the debhelper code a bit, it's just being lazy and printing 
the return value of "system", which is the exit code shifted left by 8 (or 
the signal number it died on, |128 if it core dumped, etc) -- so the exit 
code is actually 9.  You can file a wishlist bug against debhelper if you 
want, but that's really beside the point here -- which is the invalid control 
file syntax causing problems with recent versions of dpkg.
-- 
Daniel Schepler