[Aptitude-devel] Doubts about closing a couple of bug reports

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 2 January 2012 06:52, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> These are some of the bugs that I've been loking at lately, but not closed,
> although I don't know if they are useful in their current state. Would you
> please take a look and give your opinion?
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401974

Did you CC the submitter with your response to that one?  By default
submitters do not receive messages sent to nnn at bugs.debian.org [1].

[1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#followup

> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282408 (more info in some
> of the merged bugs

Lots of issues are reported concerning exit status or error handling
in general [2].  As the merged reports indicate, this one is not
really fixed.

I have WIP that seeks to address most of those issues with exit codes
and other command-line concerns by restructuring the jump(s) from
`main' to `cmdline_*'.  This is a larger amount of work than just
fixing, e.g., exit codes in individual functions, but is resulting in
a more clear flow of control and saner, more general error handling.
Should be completed during my next block of free time.

[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=aptitude;dist=unstable;users=mandyke@gmail.com;tag=errors