On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Jean Delvare wrote: > Le lundi 25 janvier 2010 13:28, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > What is the purpose of this change? What is the user going to do > > > differently after that? > > > > Lack of series file might meant that the user forgot to point quilt to the > > right patches dir/series file... so he might retry by setting > > QUILT_PATCHES correctly this time. > > The user can already do exactly the same today. The error message > is currently not "QUILT_PATCHES is not set properly", so the user > already has to translate mentally from "No patches in series" to > "QUILT_PATCHES is not set properly". Translating from "No series > file found" instead doesn't seem like a significant improvement > to me.
It seems an improvement to me. We can't conclude "QUILT_PATCHES is not set properly" because it's impossible to know whether the user expected a series file to exist or not, but we can give him that information at least. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
