Bug#818148: bullet: Out of memory errors do not make the build to stop

Santiago Vila sanvila at unex.es
Tue Mar 15 15:01:15 UTC 2016


severity 818148 serious
thanks

Per Policy 4.6, "Error trapping in makefiles", I'm setting the
severity to what it should be.

Policy 4.6 says:

  Every time you put more than one shell command (this includes using
  a loop) in a makefile command you must make sure that errors are
  trapped.

Note that it says "must", so the serious severity is completely appropriate.

Feel free to keep the "unreproducible" tag if you like, but this
is a serious bug according to Debian policy.

Lack of memory is not the problem, it's just the way we discovered
that this package does not trap for errors during the build.

The errors may be produced by any other reason other than lack of
memory, but the fact that the makefiles do not trap errors remains the
same.

Thanks.



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