Package: devscripts Version: 2.17.5 Severity: minor Hi,
If grep-excuses fails to download the excuses from release.d.o, it provides the folloing error message: """ $ grep-excuses foo grep-excuses: fetch https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/autoremovals.cgi failed (4 ) gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file grep-excuses: read/zcat failed: """ Prior to the autoremovals support, it would just have: """ $ grep-excuses foo gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file grep-excuses: read/zcat failed: """ This is very unhelpful for figuring out what went wrong. Especially, when grep-excuses is called as a part of another script (e.g. the release team has a "diff-helper" tool on respighi + coccia that runs grep-excuses, look up hints from other members and computes a diff of a given package). Note that this problem is *very* common on debian.org hosts, where DSA typically change the root trust store. There, the user typically have to add "ca_directory=/etc/ssl/ca-debian" to their ~/.wgetrc for grep-excuses to work. Thanks, ~Niels
