Confusing parsing errors

[Jonathan Lange]

I tried making a recipe with the line "merge lp:ubuntu/python-testtools". When I tried to save it (on Launchpad), I got the error "End of line while looking for branch URL".

Turns out, the *actual* mistake is that I didn't label the line, but how was I to know?

Perhaps one way would be to include the syntax of the line when erroring, e.g. "expected 'merge <label> <branch-url>'".

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

Does the label have any particular limitations in naming? If it is bzr-builder could look at the second name and look to see if it looks like a name or url to try to give a more useful error.

[James Westby (james-w)]

Is this a dupe of bug 604718 then? That is asking for the
expected format of the line to be printed.

Thanks,

James

[Tim Penhey (thumper)]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:30:56 you wrote:
> Is this a dupe of bug 604718 then? That is asking for the
> expected format of the line to be printed.

Probably