On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:45:28PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> I'm following up on bug report 285568 about dput aborting on ftp error. 
> I think the ugly traceback has been banned, so we need to decide how to 
> proceed with resolving the bug.
> I'm pretty much convinced that the current behaviour of stopping the 
> upload on error is the right thing to do.
> As such, I basically see three options to resolve this bug:
> - Have dput print out a note about removing files with dcut when the
>   error 553 (Action not taken, file name not allowed) occurs,
> - Adding an FAQ entry about using dcut when 553 occurs,
> - Not doing anything and just close the bug.
> 
> FTP error 553 seems specific enough to put out a warning message (we can 
> assume our filenames to be innocent enough unless someone fabricates 
> packages with funny names), so I'm kind of leaning towards just doing that.

I think having dput suggest dcut when this error occurs would be fine.
It would be even cooler if it removed it automatically.

-- 
Matt

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