Improve spec failure messages on multiple versions (spack#51)

* Improve spec failure messagees on multiple versions * Fix style
greenc-FNAL · Oct 20, 2022 · f34f67d · f34f67d
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commit f34f67d
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/spec.py b/lib/spack/spack/spec.py
@@ -610,7 +610,8 @@ def _add_versions(self, version_list):
             # Note: This may be impossible to reach by the current parser
             # Keeping it in case the implementation changes.
             raise MultipleVersionError(
-                "A spec cannot contain multiple version signifiers." " Use a version list instead."
+                "A spec ({0}) cannot contain multiple version signifiers. "
+                "Use a version list instead.".format(self)
             )
         self.versions = vn.VersionList()
         for version in version_list:
@@ -1396,7 +1397,8 @@ def _add_versions(self, version_list):
         # If it already has a non-trivial version list, this is an error
         if self.versions and self.versions != vn.VersionList(":"):
             raise MultipleVersionError(
-                "A spec cannot contain multiple version signifiers." " Use a version list instead."
+                "A spec ({0}) cannot contain multiple version signifiers. "
+                "Use a version list instead.".format(self)
             )
         self.versions = vn.VersionList()
         for version in version_list: