Hi, On Wed, 09 Mar 2016, Osamu Aoki wrote: > In retrospective for backport, string should have been kept if possible.
Not only for backports, but for backwards compatibility in general... I don't think that the string changes are justified in the --dehs output. > In old code, error reporting had several irregularities which got > cleaned up in new uscan. This reorganization was quite extensive > so I should have warned James when he started working on it. > > Now uscan reports more detailed error analysis, please allow this new > feature update which already happened. It's still quite wrong to have to compare textual strings. You should have some booleans or keywords exported in the --dehs output so that we can easily query the status without fearing further changes in the text... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
