Package: src:dgit Version: 8.3 Severity: important Fairly recently I changed a lot of die to confess.
However, confess is less good than die in one important respect: $ perl -e 'use Carp; open X, ">/dev/eacces" or die $!' Permission denied at -e line 1. $ perl -e 'use Carp; open X, ">/dev/eacces" or confess $!' at -e line 1. $ I think this may have something to do with Carp's attempt to save and restore $!. Only literally confess $! is affected: $ perl -e 'use Carp; open X, ">/dev/eacces" or confess "$!"' Permission denied at -e line 1. $ so the fix, while textually huge, is simple. *sigh* Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
