Infra: Exit statuses: work around bizarre behaviour of perl die wrt $?, and de-reserv...

[dgit.git] / Debian / Dgit.pm

diff --git a/Debian/Dgit.pm b/Debian/Dgit.pm
index 3f2988e4b3599f08b4b9e54fa5b2170c53d96723..e8d2608aef09a5ab3ee04b33b1025ba149830a1a 100644 (file)
--- a/Debian/Dgit.pm
+++ b/Debian/Dgit.pm
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ our $branchprefix = 'dgit';
 
 # policy hook exit status bits
 # see dgit-repos-server head comment for documentation
-# 1 is reserved in case something fails with `exit 1'
+# 1 is reserved in case something fails with `exit 1' and to spot
+# dynamic loader, runtime, etc., failures, which report 127 or 255
 sub NOFFCHECK () { return 0x2; }
 sub FRESHREPO () { return 0x4; }
-# 0x80 is reserved
 
 sub debiantag ($) { 
     my ($v) = @_;