[Bug 1800670] Re: Improve error reporting to give clearer messages and context

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This bug was fixed in the package netplan.io - 0.90

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netplan.io (0.90) disco; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release:
    - build: fixes for building on RPM-based distros
    - build: code prettiness changes (make indentation consistent)
    - Fix device name-changes detection (LP: #1770082)
    - Add support for IPv6 Privacy Extensions (LP: #1750392)
    - Add dhcp{4,6}-overrides to control DNS, NTP, hostname updates via DHCP
      (LP: #1759014)
    - Clarify MAC and MTU setting requirements (LP: #1800668)
    - Various documentation fixes (LP: #1800669)
    - Improve error reporting to give clearer messages and context
      (LP: #1800670)
    - Skip non-physical/bond interfaces when applying renames (LP: #1802322)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <cyphermox at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 21 Nov 2018
14:06:13 -0500

** Changed in: netplan.io (Ubuntu Disco)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Improve error reporting to give clearer messages and context

Status in netplan:
  New
Status in netplan.io package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in netplan.io source package in Bionic:
  New
Status in netplan.io source package in Cosmic:
  New
Status in netplan.io source package in Disco:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Give more information about the error, including its exact location in
  the code.

  Make the error messages shorter but still understandable.

  Present clear context so people understand what we found was wrong, if
  not from line/column number, then from the extract from their file,
  with a marker to the error.

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