Excerpts from Christian Kastner's message of Wed May 19 10:10:25 -0700 2010: > I just re-read #443615. I understand the wish for such a feature, and > have added it to my ideas list (among #373152 et al). Such a feature > could be added in squeeze+1, via a --strict flag or similar, but I won't > promise it. > > For now, I suggest Andrew do the inverse of your suggestion and add > > || echo "FOO failed" > > to those entries for which a mail should be sent on non-zero exit.
Yes, now that I know about the problem, I try to do something like this. Thanks for considering the problem. I really think that reporting a non-zero exit should be the default. There's little point in a --strict flag, because those who know about the problem can work-around it as you showed. I understand if you can't make this change in the current release cycle, but I think it would be a good idea for the next one. Making failures visible will make the whole system more solid in the end. (And I won't have to explain to the boss why the reports weren't running when I thought they were.) Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
