From 30cafc553a0e3195a43a5bc48404bc1b79eca1ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Douglas Jacobsen <dwjacobsen@google.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:54:43 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Isolate util/executable

---
 lib/spack/spack/util/error.py      | 8 ++++++++
 lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/spack/spack/util/error.py

diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/error.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/error.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..cd979839f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/error.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+
+class UtilityError(Exception):
+    """Base error for all errors from the utility package"""
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py b/lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py
index 36c7e73e063..1e210906a09 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/util/executable.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 import llnl.util.tty as tty
 
-import spack.error
+import spack.util.error
 
 __all__ = ["Executable", "which", "ProcessError"]
 
@@ -362,7 +362,10 @@ def which(*args, **kwargs):
     return Executable(exe) if exe else None
 
 
-class ProcessError(spack.error.SpackError):
+class EditorError(spack.util.error.UtilityError):
+    """Base error for all errors from the executable utility"""
+
+class ProcessError(EditorError):
     """ProcessErrors are raised when Executables exit with an error code."""
 
 
@@ -371,5 +374,5 @@ class ProcessTimeoutError(ProcessError):
     specified timeout exceed that time"""
 
 
-class CommandNotFoundError(spack.error.SpackError):
+class CommandNotFoundError(EditorError):
     """Raised when ``which()`` can't find a required executable."""