to raise a exception isn't a bug

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/6/18 Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de>:
> Dotan Cohen:
>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/335897
>
> I'm not sure what you're hinting at. Raising an exception really isn't a
> bug but a way to cope with an error condition that can't be handled
> otherwise.
> The above bug report affects two packages - python-apt and
> install-package. Somewhere in python-apt the exception may be raised.
> But that's not the problem but rather that install-package wasn't able
> to handle this exception gracefully. And for the latter a fix is released.
> To me, everything seems to be well and sensible. Or do I miss something?
>

Sounds reasonable to me. Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il