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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 35542@debbugs.gnu.org, Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error
Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 19:40:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190504174032.r756yfjld5gqyabh@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190504173807.2fxseiyoa4nvaoae@pelzflorian.localdomain>

On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:38:07PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 07:06:17PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > So I'd be for either presenting the entire backtrace or suppressing the
> > entire backtrace, not having teaser backtraces :)
> 
> Let’s assume someone is getting an error in the installer for some
> reason.  If they are Guix developers, maybe they understand the issue
> from the (trimmed) backtrace.  If they are not well-versed in Unix,
> with the backtrace they can exfiltrate the (trimmed) error with a
> camera.  I hope I understand the purpose correctly.  Maybe it saves
> the people on the mailing list complicated explanations.  These maybes
> become more likely with a fuller backtrace, I suppose.
> 

On the other hand the error message after the backtrace is hopefully
enough most of the time.  But maybe it is not.

Regards,
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-04 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-03  8:59 bug#35542: Installer does not display full backtrace on error pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-03  9:40 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-03 10:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-03 12:15   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-03 17:46     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-04  9:43       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-04 12:24         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-04 12:54           ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-04 16:14             ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-04 16:15               ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-08 14:35                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-14 12:09                   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-14 21:02                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-15  7:30                       ` Mathieu Othacehe
2019-05-04 17:06               ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-05-04 17:38                 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-04 17:40                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2019-05-04 17:26               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-14 16:01         ` Danny Milosavljevic

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