[dput-ng-maint] Bug#717007: dput-ng: dput is rather verbose, particularly on errors

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 05:03:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Package: dput-ng
> Version: 1.5
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi folks,

Howdy Russ, always a pleasure to find bugs from you :)

> 
> dput-ng seems a little chattier than I would prefer, particularly when
> a post_upload_comamnd fails.  Here's a transcript of a recent run.
> Things of note there:
> 
> 1. The running lines were kind of interesting the first time I used it
>    after upgrading, but are getting kind of tiresome now.  I'm not sure
>    it's really important for me to know that dput is doing that every
>    time I run it.

A good point. Perhaps we can drop the verbosity on that.

> 2. When a post_upload_command fails, I expect to see the output from
>    that command (that's all the reprepro output here).  It's also nice
>    to have the command that ran and the exit status.  But I'm not sure
>    I really care about Python barfing out its backtrace, and in this
>    particular case, since it came before the actual error output, it
>    obscured the actual problem.

ACK. I do agree as well.

> Also, as a much more minor note, dput-ng seems quite fond of long (>80
> column) lines, which makes some of its informational output a bit hard
> to read.  This is probably a personal preference thing, but in case no
> one else has given the feedback, I personally would rather the first line
> be something more like:
> 
> Uploading stanford-server using scp to local
>   Host: genesis.stanford.edu
>   Directory: /srv/repos/local/incoming
> 
> or maybe:
> 
> Uploading stanford-server using scp to local
>   (genesis.stanford.edu:/srv/repos/local/incoming)

No objections here!


Thanks for the report, Russ, I'll get right on it.


Cheers,
  Paul

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