[publican-list] [Bug 467147] New: Insufficient error reporting when no revision history is present.

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Summary: Insufficient error reporting when no revision history is present.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467147

           Summary: Insufficient error reporting when no revision history
                    is present.
           Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
           Version: 5.3
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: publican
        AssignedTo: jfearn at redhat.com
        ReportedBy: rlerch at redhat.com
         QAContact: ecs-dev-list at redhat.com
                CC: publican-list at redhat.com
    Classification: Red Hat


Description of problem:
when building the web-srpm (i tested with make web-brew-scratch-en-US) and no
Revision History is present in the book / article, publican's error reporting
is not very useful:

START: web-srpm-en-US: Thu Oct 16 07:16:41 EST 2008
 I/O error : Is a directory
 tmp/en-US/xml/:1: parser error : Document is empty
 ^
 tmp/en-US/xml/:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found
 ^
 I/O error : Is a directory
 unable to parse tmp/en-US/xml/
 make: *** [web-srpm-en-US] Error 6

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