dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2df2c624..56f3b400 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ debhelper (7.3.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   [ Joey Hess ]
   * Run pod2man with --utf8. Closes: #541270
+  * dh: Display $@ error if addon load fails. Closes: #541845
 
  -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>  Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:00:24 +0100
 
diff --git a/dh b/dh
index 9a6af325..bdd78c52 100755
--- a/dh
+++ b/dh
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ foreach my $addon (@{$dh{WITH}}) {
 	$mod=~s/-/_/g;
 	eval "use $mod";
 	if ($@) {
-		error("--with $addon not supported or failed to load module $mod");
+		error("unable to load addon $addon: $@");
 	}
 }