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Bug#58859: display-maintainer-script-filename-on-error patch



Previously Robert Woodcock wrote:
> This patch against dpkg CVS addresses #58859 - it gives users more
> descriptive error messages when installing packages with broken maintainer
> scripts (system-observer-evil is a purposefully-broken version of a local
> package of mine called system-observer):

I wouldn't call this more descriptive at all, it prints a path that
users who know how to fix these problems should already know, and
those who don't have no bussiness knowing since it is a dpkg internal
thing.

In other words, I won't merge this.

Wichert.

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