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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.
-- 
sigmentation fault



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