Bug#824078: libdvd-pkg: fails to report "apt-get check" errors (and others) correctly

[Dmitry Smirnov]

On Friday, 20 May 2016 12:50:48 AM AEST Austin English wrote:
> I understand that there's a *potential* problem.

Potential problem of breaking APT operations is much more dangerous than 
"actual" problem of ignoring return values.


> But
> here we have an *actual* problem, where the script is silently ignoring
> errors which is causing problems in downstream, and as far as I can
> tell, the current solution is to ignore actual errors in favor of
> preventing *potential* solutions?

That's right. Script was not intended to be used directly to begin with.
It was designed to be run automatically at the end of APT operations and 
(re-)build passenger package when required.


> What exactly needs to be tested in the current packaging scheme so that
> behavior could be changed? I volunteer to help with that, if it's made
> clear what needs to be done.

Perhaps to temporary break script to always return error value and try 
various apt operations (e.g. install, remove and reconfigure of other 
packages) when post-invoke hook is activated to perform build or update.

We need to be absolutely sure that build/install errors do not propagate 
where they does not belong and that nothing got broken if we take 
responsibility for propagation of those errors.

-- 
Best wishes,
 Dmitry Smirnov.

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        -- Tage Danielsson
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