From b603450a2502e1ae500f1527d4c4e8002e15d9be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Kelling <iank@fsf.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 13:37:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] better error handling

---
 src/identify-distros | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/identify-distros b/src/identify-distros
index 011ddb5..c3cfc72 100644
--- a/src/identify-distros
+++ b/src/identify-distros
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ distro-name-ver() {
 debian-archive() {
     isdeb || return 0
     local archive expression pri name highpri shortest
-    local policy="${1:-$(apt-cache policy)}"
+    local policy="${1:-$(apt-cache policy)}" || return $?
     # a = archive
     # n = codename
     # o = origin
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ isdebian-stable() {
 
 debian-codename() {
     isdeb || return 0
-    local policy="$(apt-cache policy)"
+    local policy="$(apt-cache policy)" || return $?
     archive=$(debian-archive "$policy")
     echo "$policy" | sed -rn "s/^.*a=$archive,n=([a-z]+).*/\1/p;T;q"
 }
-- 
2.30.2