James Vega wrote:

> tag 575864 wontfix
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:58:57AM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> > I believe uscan should return an error code of zero in the following case:
> > 
> >    $ uscan --report-status --watchfile debian/watch
> >    Processing watchfile line for package haskell-unixutils...
> >    Newest version on remote site is 1.22, local version is 1.22
> >     => Package is up to date
> >    $ echo $?
> >    1
> 
> Since uscan's purpose, as documented in uscan(1), is to look for newer
> versions of upstream source, we return 0 when there's been a newer
> version found.  Applying this patch would break that behavior.  As such,
> I'm closing this bug.

What about a --exit-zero-if-no-new-upstream command line option?

This would not break existing behaviour and in scripts this would
make the intent far more obvious.

Erik
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