On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 12:25:08PM +0530, Praveen A wrote: > I'm attaching my /etc/devscripts.conf file. It was causing the hangs,
The problem is the following line: DEBCHANGE_MAINTTRAILER=yes#### debcheckout option added in 2.10.70 The way we parse the config files is by having bash source them and then echo back the values of the config variables. In this case, sourcing /etc/devscripts runs debcheckout, which sources /etc/devscripts, which runs debcheckout, ad inifitum. > dch and now debsign also keeps waiting for some input, with no error > message or no other indication of configuration error. Once I moved > this file from /etc everything started working again. I think we > should have better error catching and error messages. There's no error to catch. Your config file is saying to run debcheckout, so that's what happens. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>
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