On 2017-04-13 12:03, roucaries bastien wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> 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? Andreas