There’s a steady number of bug reports generated by the "You found
a bug" message which happens during `guix pull's. The
overwhelming majority of these reports are caused by networking
problems or the Guix infrastructure being unreliable or
overloaded. Many of these were submitted during the recent
guix.gnu.org downtime.
Some of these that I see:
55066
62023
62830
61520
58309
...I’m sure there are many more.
Is there some way for this code to be smarter about when it prints
the "report a bug" message, so it doesn’t tell users to report
bugs when none exist? Is there a way for it to notice that the
problem is related to networking, and tell the users to try again
in a little while? Is it worth removing the "report a bug"
message entirely?
It doesn’t feel great to tell users to report a bug for things
that aren’t bugs. They’re either closed, or never followed up on;
it’s a poor experience on both ends.
Thanks,
— Ian
