Control: retitle -1 Parsing.Parse_error - improve error message Control: severity -1 wishlist
Hi, Am Montag, den 29.06.2015, 15:29 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > Firstly, there are two syntax errors in your Sources file. They are > "libghc-data-default-dev (<< = 0.6)" and "libghc-shakespeare-dev (<< > = 2.1)". > Observe how the version relationship is invalid. well spotted! I just did not see that. > There are also weird line breaks in your Build-Depends field in the > middle of package names. Maybe they were not intended either? Not here, likely a problem with the mail client? > Secondly, even after fixing them you will get the following error: > > Fatal error in module common/input.ml: > Input file Packages is empty > > So dose3 is currently unable to handle empty input files. Yes, the empty file was just to reproduce the error. It did not have to make sense :-) > The first problem (the wrong version relationship) indeed deserves a > much better error message. > > As for the second problem (the empty Packages file) I was annoyed by > this myself for a long time and would like to get to know a use case > where an empty input file would make sense. Currently I'm working > around this by conditionally only running dose3 in my scripts when > the input is not empty but I'd like to get rid of these checks. So > I'm curious: what is your use case to use an empty > Packages file? Sorry, none :-] I sometimes have empty Sources lists, but only if my build-all-script has determined that it has nothing to build at all. But like you I would not mind if dose would handle that gracefully. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: F0FBF51F JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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