Bug#774276: /usr/bin/debsnap: debsnap exits successfully even though it did not download the requested package

[Johannes Schauer]

Hi,

Quoting James McCoy (2015-01-03 07:44:53)
> Agreed.  What about “debsnap bash -a amd64 -a i386 2.0-3”?  Should debsnap
> be treat that as an error (because not all the archs were available) or as a
> success (because *something* was downloaded)?

I think a program should only return success if it managed to do exactly what
it was asked to do. In all other situations, it should indicate that something
went wrong so that the calling process or the user can investigate the problem
and react accordingly.

Thanks!

cheers, josch