[DRE-maint] Bug#783540: network outage causes mysterious exception

[Antoine Beaupré]

Package: feed2imap
Version: 1.2.3-1
Severity: minor

My gateway lost network access (so my machine didn't notice) recently
and I got a pile of those messages from cron in my inbox:

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `join': No live threads left. Deadlock? (fatal)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `block in initialize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `each'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/feed2imap/feed2imap.rb:218:in `initialize'
from /usr/bin/feed2imap:48:in `new'
from /usr/bin/feed2imap:48:in `<main>'

Now I don't expect feed2imap to do anything magical when network goes
out: failing is fine and expected. But "No live threads
left. Deadlock?" is hardly a error message anyone should be expected
to understand.

I would suggest "unreachable host" or something to that effect. :)

Thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages feed2imap depends on:
ii  ruby                        1:2.1.5
ii  ruby-feedparser             0.9.3-2
ii  ruby-rubymail               1.0.0-2
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]  2.1.5-2

feed2imap recommends no packages.

Versions of packages feed2imap suggests:
ii  dovecot-imapd [imap-server]  1:2.2.13-11
ii  evolution [imap-client]      3.12.9~git20141130.241663-1+b1
ii  mutt [imap-client]           1.5.23-3

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