Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.10
Severity: normal
The "|| exit 10" has been removed from the default 10apt-listbugs
config file for the following reason given in the changelog:
* improved 10apt-listbugs configuration file (enhanced English in a
comment, dropped redundant exit 10)
Though it can be re-added by the user, he (and apparently the
maintainer too) may not be aware of implications of the presence
or not of "|| exit 10". Indeed, unless there an error in the
documentation, the "|| exit 10" is not redundant. The apt-listbugs(1)
man page says:
EXIT CODE
0 Success.
1 When something is wrong.
10 To warn APT not to proceed.
130 When a SIGINT was received (for instance because the user
pressed [Ctrl+C]).
So, there are 4 possibilities. Assume that apt-listbugs is executed
via APT. The "|| exit 10" doesn't matter for cases 0 and 10, and
probably 130 too (because Ctrl-C will interrupt everything I assume).
Now, in case 1, something was wrong. One doesn't know whether the user
wants to install the packages, but he may miss RC bugs, and if apt
proceeds, this may be bad. I suppose that if the user has installed
apt-listbugs, he probably wants to avoid that, and probably solve the
problem with apt-listbugs terminating with exit status 1 first. So,
for most users, "|| exit 10" is probably better than keeping the exit
status 1, which would not have an effect on APT.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 0.9.11.4
ii ruby 1:1.9.3
ii ruby-debian 0.3.8+b1
ii ruby-gettext 3.0.0-2
ii ruby-httpclient 2.3.3-2
ii ruby-soap4r 2.0.5-2
ii ruby-xmlparser 0.7.2-2
ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.358-8
ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.448-1
apt-listbugs recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 29.0.1547.57-3+b1
ii debianutils 4.4
ii elinks [www-browser] 0.12~pre6-2
ii epiphany-browser [www-browser] 3.8.2-3
ii iceweasel [www-browser] 24.0-2
ii links [www-browser] 2.8-1
ii links2 [www-browser] 2.8-1
ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.8dev.16-1
ii midori [www-browser] 0.4.3+dfsg-0.1
ii reportbug 6.4.4
ii uzbl [www-browser] 0.0.0~git.20120514-1.1
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-11
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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