Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour
Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +0000, Nick Boyce <nick@glimmer.demon.co.uk> was heard to say:
>
>> Does anyone think another bug report is called for ?
>> It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour
>> needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list.
>
> I'm currently busy working on other parts of the program.
Understood - no [undue] pressure intended :)
> ... If you want this in a hurry your best bet is to either
> send a working patch to a bug report or (if such a patch
> already exists) to harass me via email until I apply it. :-)
Okay ... I'll have a go at coding a fix ... I'm not familiar with
developing for Debian, but that sounds like it might be within my
capability :)
> Preferably all such harassment should be conducted via
> emails sent to bug reports
I'd be inclined to add to one of the existing bugs (probably the newest
one, 445035) - but would you rather have separate bugs for each
different circumstance where a non-zero exit status is required ?
>> And is there a better list to post this to ?
>
> The most appropriate list would be aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org.
> deity@lists.debian.org would be the closest alternative.
aaaah ... didn't realise 'lists.alioth.d.o' existed. I'll drop a note to
aptitude-devel when I file or update a bug report.
Thanks,
Nick Boyce
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