On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 05:10:31PM -0700, Ryan Niebur wrote: > clone 536576 -1 > reassign -1 reportbug > block -1 by 536576 > retitle -1 reportbug: pass --ignore-permissions (once available) to debsums > quit > > I don't want to make this change,
strange... > failing to open files *should* fail what does this error say to the user running debsums? - is it ok that the file can't be read? - is it a problem? - is the file there but it's the directory (tree) that can't be accessed? - the file is there, and I can't ready (because I don't have permissions), that's ok, but is the file corrupted or not? I can live with it, can the normal user do the same? I doubt it. You should really start thinking about users instead of lines of code to write. > and result in a !0 return code, the same return code of all other errors? > so I will add an option > --ignore-permissions for reportbug to use. This is a workaround, not a fix. If I can't access a file I can's say *anything* about it's corruption or not, so _at the very least_ you should say: I can't access <...> because of missing permission, so I can't check if the file is corrupted or not. that's what a user wants to hear. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
