Control: block -1 by 827075 On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 11:54:01PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > I've been looking recently at creating a small helper to delegate the > locking to, because the automatic dbgsym packages and dpkg coloring > have exacerbated this annoyance when building packages :), but that > poses varios problems, and using an XS module is definitely the > cleanest approach. And the mail from Josh just reminded me that this > seems to have fallen through the cracks. :) > > As I've mentioned before I'd really prefer to use the pre-existing > module to avoid duplicating work, but if the correct solution might > take too much effort, I might look into embedding something based on > this module into dpkg itself temporarily. > > Also maybe we should file the above as a bug report against > libfile-fcntllock-perl and block this one aginst the new one?
Hi Guillem, Yes, indeed; this bug is quite long enough already :) I've refiled Niko's plan (which is still, as far as I know, "just" in need of implementation, as two new bugs, #827074 and #827075). I don't think that it would take a lot of work to implement, so I'm hopeful that we can get this resolved before too much longer. (I'm still very aware that I was the original instigator of the much-despised warning, so I'd like to see the back of it as much as anyone :) Cheers, Dominic.
