From: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:50:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add doc why we are monkeypatching commands.getstatusoutput
X-Git-Url: https://git.decadent.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b6b4f022e6cd1a32a675acbe14f1345347e74724;p=dak.git

Add doc why we are monkeypatching commands.getstatusoutput

Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
---

diff --git a/daklib/utils.py b/daklib/utils.py
index 457e093c..788bcd41 100755
--- a/daklib/utils.py
+++ b/daklib/utils.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ key_uid_email_cache = {}  #: Cache for email addresses from gpg key uids
 known_hashes = [("sha1", apt_pkg.sha1sum, (1, 8)),
                 ("sha256", apt_pkg.sha256sum, (1, 8))] #: hashes we accept for entries in .changes/.dsc
 
+# Monkeypatch commands.getstatusoutput as it returns a "0" exit code in
+# all situations under lenny's Python.
 import commands
 def dak_getstatusoutput(cmd):
     pipe = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True, universal_newlines=True,