Debian Bug report logs - #860237
piuparts: Improve debugging experience in case of dpkg failure

Package: piuparts; Maintainer for piuparts is piuparts developers team <[email protected]>; Source for piuparts is src:piuparts (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Bastien ROUCARIÈS <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:48:01 UTC

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On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2017-04-13 12:03, roucaries bastien wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-13 11:44, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
>>>> Actually dpkg try to recover from error state in order to get something safe.
>>>>
>>>> it is not really needed for piupart and moreover it detroy bug evidence.
>>>>
>>>> Safer will be to add  abort-after=1 to dpkg config thus keeping evidence.
>>>
>>> Do you have a concrete example of a failure you want to debug?
>>
>> Yes here https://piuparts.debian.org/wheezy222testing/bugged/imagemagick-doc_8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-3.log
>
> rerunning it with --shell-on-error (and without timeout prefix) would
> give you a shell in the chroot - would this help?


Yes but without dpkg option it is too late. dpkg tried to recover...
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> Andreas
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