Personally, one of the key advantages of Linux is that in case of trouble, you can inspect/call the 'lower layers' manually to find out where the problem lies. Silently failing makes that much harder - though still possible by editing the script, of course.
That said, I fully recognize that it's the maintainers, not me, who get to make this decision - just wanted to express my opinion. -- sleep.sh exits silently in some cases https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260329 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
