Bug#611408: texi2dvi: swallow error messages
On 29.01.11 Jakub Wilk (jwilk@debian.org) wrote:
Hi Jakub,
> This part of /usr/bin/texi2dvi
>
> if test $? != 0; then
> cat "$version_test_dir/txiversion.out"
> cat "$version_test_dir/txiversion.err" >&2
> error 1 "texinfo.tex appears to be broken, quitting."
> fi
>
> is dead code. The whole script is run under "set -e", so if $TEX
> fails, the script will be termined with no error message shown.
>
So, what do you suggest then? Should we/upstream simply remove that
code block?
H.
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