Bug#703603: apt: gai_strerror is not always specific enough for Something wicked happened errors

2013-03-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Michael Vogt m...@debian.org wrote: The patch looks good, I applied it to the debian branch and it will be part of the next upload to experimental (due to the freeze otherwise it would be debian/unstable). As a minor nitpick: We have _error-Errno() which saves

Bug#703603: apt: gai_strerror is not always specific enough for Something wicked happened errors

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Vogt
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 06:19:39PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Michael Vogt m...@debian.org wrote: The patch looks good, I applied it to the debian branch and it will be part of the next upload to experimental (due to the freeze otherwise it would be

Bug#703603: apt: gai_strerror is not always specific enough for Something wicked happened errors

2013-03-21 Thread Colin Watson
Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.7 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch raring If gai_strerror returns EAI_SYSTEM, then the documentation indicates that the caller should check errno for details. apt doesn't do this, and just prints

Bug#703603: apt: gai_strerror is not always specific enough for Something wicked happened errors

2013-03-21 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:12:00AM +, Colin Watson wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.9.7.7 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch raring Hi Colin, thanks for your bugreport and your patch! If gai_strerror returns