On 2020-08-14 at 14:15, Guillem Jover wrote: > Control: found -1 1.20.1 > > Hi! > > On Fri, 2020-08-14 at 10:00:23 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.20.5 >> Severity: normal > >> When I attempt to file a bug report against dpkg with reportbug, I get >> the following output: >> >> >> The package bug script /usr/share/bug/dpkg exited with an error status >> (return code = 256). Do you still want to file a report? [y|N|q|?]? > > Oh, so I guess this is due to you not having a tainted usr-merged system
Correct. > and the readlink failing, due to some recent refactoring. I'll fix that. I wasn't aware that there had been recent changes in that area; that would explain it. Thank you for your prompt attention to this. >> It is not clear whether this reflects a problem that will manifest >> itself in the resulting bug report, but at the minimum, it is clearly >> suboptimal UX. If it does reflect a real problem, that problem should be >> fixed; if it does not, it should be streamlined so that this notice does >> not appear in routine bug-report attempts. > > This would be reportbug noticing that the bug script failed and > reporting that. Yeah - the "this" to which I was referring is more the fact that the bug script failed, and the possibility that that might mean the bug report wouldn't have all the data the maintainers would be expecting to receive. On deeper examination, this latter seems unlikely, at least for this particular bug script. >> As things stand, I have another bug report which I would like to file >> (which might belong either to dpkg or to locales-all, or even somewhere >> else I can't identify at a glance, but I think fits dpkg as the most >> likely candidate) which is on hold because of this. > > I assume that until the problem has been fixed in the bug-script, just > replying 'y' would do. Given the above, I concur, and will follow up appropriately. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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