retitle 537359 Outputs irritating warning instead of proper error message if
debian/xcontrol does not exist
severity 537359 important
kthxbye
Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> The error is actually as reported in the diagnostic: the code tried to
> get() the value of an un-set variable of type
> boost::optional<source_section>. I'm not familiar enough with the
> code to judge, but I wonder whether this truly is grave?
> Superficially, it looks like either a simple
> inadequate-input-validation bug or a simple inadequate-fault-reporting
> bug.
Indeed. According to the maintainer of the Debian package on IRC, it's
just xcontrol's current way to say "no debian/xcontrol found".
Retitling and lowering severity thus.
Regards, Axel
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