Control: reassign 677865 libdpkg-perl
Control: forcemerge 677865 -1
Hi!
On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 16:55:20 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 15:47:26 +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Package: libdpkg-perl
> > Version: 1.16.4.3
> > Severity: minor
>
> > I noticed the following snippet in the buildd log for file/5.11-2 (amd64):
> >
> > """
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which
> > is not NFS-safe
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which
> > is not NFS-safe
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which
> > is not NFS-safe
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package python-magic: unknown
> > substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which
> > is not NFS-safe
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package python-magic: unused substitution
> > variable ${python:Versions}
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package python-magic-dbg:
> > unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
> > dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which
> > is not NFS-safe
> > """
> >
> > I have traced that to the file_lock sub in Dpkg::File which emits a
> > warning each time that sub is called.
>
> Right, the problem is that dpkg-gencontrol only calls file_lock once
> per invokation so there's no clean way to avoid the duped warnings,
> one solution would be to get the buidds to install the package as was
> the case with previous versions where it was a hard Depends instead of
> a Recommends.
>
> As such I guess this bug could be merged with 677865.
Ok, done so now.
Regards,
Guillem
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