[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#590911: sbuild: broken return code

[Wouter Verhelst]

Package: sbuild
Version: 0.60.0-1+buildd20100619.1

Hi,

cyrus-sasl2-heimdal_2.1.23.dfsg1-5.1 failed on voltaire. Sbuild sent me
a mail with 'Log for attempted build' as the subject, but daemon.log
contains this:

Jul 29 12:49:09 buildd[2705]: sbuild of cyrus-sasl2-heimdal_2.1.23.dfsg1-5.1 failed with status 1 (local problem) -- giving back

... which is clearly wrong.

I've been thinking that, as sbuild needs to interpret exit states which
aren't exactly reliable, it might be better to have it communicate over
stdout instead?

Anyway, regardless, this shouldn't happen :)

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