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Package: libcupt-perl
Version: 1.5.13
It seems that the only locking supported by cupt is
via the non-portable flock(). In contrast, APT and
dpkg use POSIX locking via fcntl() for locking
files, and the both are not compatible to each
other (fcntl() locking is only compatible to
fcntl() locking, not to flock(); and not even
to lockf()).
It also seems to me that cupt does not acquire
a lock for dpkg (/var/lib/dpkg/lock), as APT
does. This is needed to ensure that no other
package manager writes to the dpkg status file
(or removes/installs packages) while cupt is
running.
Regards,
Julian (who wrote locking code for APT2 today)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libcupt-perl depends on:
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.25~02-1 Perl module with additional list f
ii libparse-recdescent-perl 1.965001+dfsg-1 Perl module to create and use recu
ii libterm-size-perl 0.2-4+b1 Perl extension for retrieving term
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii libwww-curl-perl 4.11-1 Perl bindings to libcurl
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages libcupt-perl recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii gpgv 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - signature veri
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.05-6 Using libc functions for internati
Versions of packages libcupt-perl suggests:
ii cupt 1.5.13 alternative front-end for dpkg --
pn debdelta <none> (no description available)
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools
pn dpkg-repack <none> (no description available)
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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Version: 2.10.4+nmu2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package cupt has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1119341
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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