Accepted apt 0.7.2ubuntu1 (source)

[Michael Bienia]

On 2007-07-01 20:46:25 +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:05:43PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> > I got notified that the maintainer script failed with exitcode 1. In
> > this particular case, the maintainer script wasn't too helpful with
> > giving a lot of diagnostics (you need to set a special environment
> > variable to enable debugging there), but the crash has been
> > reported. The crash file from /var/crash/exim4-config.0.crash has the
> > following contents:
> > 
> > root at faui44a:/var/crash# more exim4-config.0.crash
> > ProblemType: Package
> > Architecture: i386
> > Date: Thu Jun 28 10:44:06 2007
> > Package: exim4-config 4.67-3
> > SourcePackage: exim4
> > ErrorMessage:
> >  Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
> 
> Hmm, this probably shouldn't be localized in the bug report, as it will make
> it more difficult to match duplicates.

Is it safe to do dupe checking only on the exit code from the postinst?
Different errors may make the postinst exit with exit code 1 and should
end in different bug reports.

Michael