Bug#824078: libdvd-pkg: fails to report "apt-get check" errors (and others) correctly

[Cyril Brulebois]

Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> (2016-05-15):
> On Sunday, 15 May 2016 2:03:28 PM AEST Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > Failing to return success or failure properly really is Bad Programming
> > 101. This means your uers have no programmatic way of knowing whether
> > what they called worked, and how to behave accordingly.
> 
> I know, I know. :)  I agree. However here safety concerns are more
> important: we can afford to fail to build a package but not to
> compromise package management by propagating errors where they
> naturally do not occur.
> 
> I hope it make sense.

It doesn't, but it seems time is going to be better spent checking the
actual side-effects of installing libdvd-css or calling that script
directly, instead of being told again and again how much of a snow flake
your package is, and how OK it is for it to behave like it currently does.

[…]

> > I didn't realize it got hooked up into apt (the build script is called
> > directly in Tails). Actually, this makes this issue looks even worth
> > than I thought…
> 
> "Even worse" maybe? I'm not sure I understand your concerns...

Yes. English isn't my monther tongue, and failing at quasi-homophones
can happen to me.


KiBi.
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