Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] give more meaningful error messages

[Jean Delvare]

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.

-- 
Jean Delvare
Suse L3