[Piuparts-devel] Bug#860237: Bug#860237: [piuparts.debian.org] Improve debugging experience in case of dpkg failure

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-04-13 12:03, roucaries bastien wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
>> On 2017-04-13 11:44, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
>>> Actually dpkg try to recover from error state in order to get something safe.
>>>
>>> it is not really needed for piupart and moreover it detroy bug evidence.
>>>
>>> Safer will be to add  abort-after=1 to dpkg config thus keeping evidence.
>>
>> Do you have a concrete example of a failure you want to debug?
> 
> Yes here https://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy222testing/bugged/imagemagick-doc_8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3.log

rerunning it with --shell-on-error (and without timeout prefix) would
give you a shell in the chroot - would this help?


Andreas