Re: error messages of failing maintainer scripts

2019-05-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ralf Treinen writes ("error messages of failing maintainer scripts"): > do we require that a maintainer script that exits with an error gives > a useful error message? I couldn't find anything about this in policy, > but I think that we should require, or at least reco

error messages of failing maintainer scripts

2019-05-28 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hi, do we require that a maintainer script that exits with an error gives a useful error message? I couldn't find anything about this in policy, but I think that we should require, or at least recommend, useful error messages. A concrete example that we found in our current project about