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 5953490e41bb919db1eb8ab1405d75e2094bb784..e8d2608aef09a5ab3ee04b33b1025ba149830a1a 100644 (file)
--- a/Debian/Dgit.pm
+++ b/Debian/Dgit.pm
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ BEGIN {
     @EXPORT      = qw(debiantag server_branch server_ref
                       stat_exists git_for_each_ref
                       git_for_each_tag_referring
-                      $package_re $component_re $branchprefix
+                      $package_re $component_re $deliberately_re
+                      $branchprefix
                       initdebug enabledebug enabledebuglevel
                       printdebug debugcmd
                       $debugprefix *debuglevel *DEBUG
@@ -30,14 +31,15 @@ our @EXPORT_OK;
 
 our $package_re = '[0-9a-z][-+.0-9a-z]*';
 our $component_re = '[0-9a-zA-Z][-+.0-9a-zA-Z]*';
+our $deliberately_re = "(?:TEST-)?$package_re";
 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) = @_;