bug#23479: CRAN importer: do not print backtrace when package name is invalid

2016-12-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Fixed in commit fdbc84b056683204c5832d3740d9b109f31f7cb9.

bug#23479: CRAN importer: do not print backtrace when package name is invalid

2016-05-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
The CRAN importer (and possibly other importers) print ugly backtraces when a package is to be imported that does not exist. This can happen when the user mistypes the name or when the package is available on Bioconductor rather than CRAN. To fix this we should catch 404 errors in the “fetch-desc