Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > Ok, gzip -dc used now.
Thanks for humoring me. > I check for a failure of the system call too but that only tells me > that patch failed. In verbose mode it will report the failure but not > count it as error since it will just fetch the full file then. This > allows using debmirror without patch installed if anyone wants > that. I think that is fine. In verbose mode report the failure and correct with a full file fetch. In normal (non-verbose) mode no need to report anything. That sounds good. > The drawback is that any actual patch failures will just be silently > corrected without indicating a problem. I misunderstand because this with the previous sentence seems to be opposite statements. I am sorry that I am not understanding here on this very small point. If something that should not be failing is failing then I don't like to see it be completely silent. Okay to be silent in the normal non-verbose mode. But when verbose is active I think errors that should not happen but did fail be reported that they did fail even though the workaround corrects it immediately. Because I have seen times when those impossible situations did arise and having that information during debugging was invaluable. And sometimes in my own programs I have later created that impossible situation breaking the feature permanently. The message informing me of it let me know about the problem easily when otherwise I would have been silently correcting and losing the benefit of the feature. I have raised my issues and you have given it thought and I will support whatever you decide to do here. Thanks again for all of the hard work maintaining this package! I use it every day and it helps me out very much. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
