I agree that if the user specifies a config file explicitly, and that
file doesn't exist, the user should get a clear error message about
that. From an implemenation point of view, this needs to be fixed in
cliapp, so I'll re-assign the bug there.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 04:22:52PM +0200, Damien Couroussé wrote:
> Package: obnam
> Version: 1.8-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> hello,
> 
> 
> obnam returns an abstruse message when the configuration file is
> incorrectly specified.
> 
> Here is an example :
> $ /usr/bin/obnam --config $BAD_CONFIG_FILENAME generations
> ERROR: RA920EX:  does not seem to be an Obnam repository
> 
> 
> best regards,
> Damien
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (480, 'stable'), 
> (200, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages obnam depends on:
> ii  libc6             2.18-5
> ii  python            2.7.5-5
> ii  python-cliapp     1.20140315-1
> ii  python-fuse       2:0.2.1-9
> ii  python-larch      1.20131130-1
> ii  python-paramiko   1.10.1-1
> ii  python-tracing    0.8-1
> ii  python-ttystatus  0.23-1
> 
> obnam recommends no packages.
> 
> obnam suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 

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