Bug#823155: maven-debian-helper: mh_make fails to determine that apt-file is configured

[Niels Thykier]

On Sun, 01 May 2016 17:14:07 +0200 Peter Spiess-Knafl
<dev at spiessknafl.at> wrote:
> Package: maven-debian-helper
> Version: 2.0.6
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> mh_make is looking at a deprecated path for mvnDebug.
> 
> apt-file no longer references to mvnDebug at /usr/bin/mvnDebug but rather at
> /usr/share/maven/bin/mvnDebug
> 
> The attached patch fixes this problem.
> 
> Greetings
> Peter
> 
> [...]

Hi,

FTR, apt-file/3.0 has some new exit codes that might be interesting for you:

> EXIT CODES
>        apt-file has the following defined exit codes, which can be used for scripting purposes.
> 
>        0   apt-file returned successfully.  If the command was a search, there was at least one result.
> 
>        1   apt-file completed a search successfully, but it had no results.
> 
>        2   An error occurred (including invalid/conflicting user options).
> 
>        3   apt-file could not complete the command because the cache was empty.  Please ensure there are indices enabled in the APT config and run apt update to fetch them.
> 
>        4   apt-file could not complete the command because the cache does not have any files matching the restrictions.  Either change the restrictions (e.g. --index-names) or configure apt to fetch the relevant files and
>            run apt update.
> 
>        255 There was an internal errors / uncaught exception in apt-file.  Please file a bug against apt-file.
> 
>        Any other exit code is reserved for future use.

Please note that apt-file/3.0 requires a very recent version of APT and
is unlikely to be backported.

Thanks,
~Niels