[debhelper-devel] Bug#797904: debhelper manpage: #DEBHELPER# in Perl: bad error handling

[Jakub Wilk]

Hi Peter!

* Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>, 2015-09-07, 14:26:
>Hm, this is a personal pet peeve, feel free to ignore it :) ...but it 
>does make me cringe a little bit every time people parse the wait() 
>status code directly instead of using WIFEXITED(), WEXITCODE() and 
>friends...

In C, sure. But in Perl, fiddling with $? bits is a documented and 
portable method.

-- 
Jakub Wilk