[Reproducible-builds] Bug#800159: Error handling seems poor

[Vincent Bernat]

Package: strip-nondeterminism
Version: 0.012-1
Severity: minor

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Hi!

I am interested in building an equivalent of equivs that would create
a package deterministically. My current approach is to use dpkg-deb
and strip-nondeterminism.

First, I have noticed that strip-nondeterminism don't complain when
provided with inexistant files (and exits with 0).

Second, it doesn't complain either when a .deb is provided but doesn't
do anything sensible. Only appending "-t ar -T 0" seems to have the
desired effect.

Unrelated to error handling, but I would also have expected that it
would strip determinism of the inner tarballs (timestamps) but maybe
that's too much to ask for this tool.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages strip-nondeterminism depends on:
ii  libfile-stripnondeterminism-perl  0.012-1
ii  perl                              5.20.2-6

strip-nondeterminism recommends no packages.

strip-nondeterminism suggests no packages.

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