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'Appending defaults (" %r/%p %s"), but please be aware that this usage


From: Simon Brooke
Subject: 'Appending defaults (" %r/%p %s"), but please be aware that this usage is deprecated'
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:39:14 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

I've recently installed scmbug (http://www.mkgnu.net/scmbug) to
integrate CVS with Bugzilla. On the whole this has been good, but
there are some problems. The main one is that when scmbug refuses to
pass a commit (usually because the user has entered a commit log
message which scmbug cannot parse) the error messages are often
bizarre and unhelpful.

Let's be clear about this: I am not complaining about a bug in CVS;
the CVS installation has been in use for months and works fine by
itself. I'm trying to understand why scmbug is returning the error
messages is does, and what I can do to make it produce more user-
helpful error messages.

The one which I'm trying to understand at present is this:

[project]: cvs commit: warning: commitinfo line contains no format
strings:
[project]:     "perl -I/var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/lib/scmbug
/var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/bin/scmbug_activity.pl
/var/lib/cvs/CVSROOT/etc/scmbug/glue.conf activity_commit
consolidate_cvs_messages"
[project]: Appending defaults (" %r/%p %s"), but please be aware that
this usage is
[project]: deprecated.
[project]: cvs [commit aborted]: Message verification failed

The last line of that (message verification failed) is the actual user
error. It isn't particularly helpful because it doesn't say why it
failed, but I'll work on that separately. What I want to know is what
you have to do to CVS to provoke the 'Appending defaults (" %r/%p
%s"), but please be aware...' message (and how to prevent this).

Version details: Debian 4.0 on Intel; cvs from official Debian
distribution, unpatched except by scmbug; scmbug from .deb packages
from mkgnu.net

address@hidden:~# dpkg -l cvs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-
installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-
============================================
ii  cvs            1.12.13-8      Concurrent Versions System
address@hidden:~# dpkg -l scmbug*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-
installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-
============================================
ii  scmbug-common  0.23.4         Scmbug common libraries.
ii  scmbug-doc     0.23.4         Scmbug documentation.
ii  scmbug-server  0.23.4         Scmbug integration server.
ii  scmbug-tools   0.23.4         Scmbug integration tools.


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