rpmbuild stops with debugedit error on F8

[Roland McGrath]

> The only thing I might take issue with is your belief the error message 
> is patently obvious. 

I never said that!  I said that what the error message says is true.

> May I suggest the error message be replaced with something which would 
> direct a developer to the root cause of the problem, especially since 
> this is a somewhat arcane limitation.

I'm sure the rpm maintainers would be happy to accept such a patch.  Using
both actual directory names in the message rather than just "-b arg" would
probably make it clear enough.

> Maybe rpmbuild should stop immediately with an error if you invoke it 
> with a topdir which is unacceptable to it's internal operation.

Well, it can cope in certain cases, basically when other cruft happens to
even out.  So it really doesn't know for sure until it knows.  


Thanks,
Roland