Package: debhelper
Version: 7.9.1
Severity: wishlist
While waiting for some long-running packages to build, I wondered if
debhelper would protect me from the following:
1. I run "debuild", then go to sleep;
2. I wake up the next day and, not realizing that debuild is still
running, initiate another "debuild" in the same working tree
without looking.
3. Results are unpredictable, e.g. non-idempotent scripts aren't run
exactly once.
To test this, I created a stub dh(1)-based source package and ran
screen debuild && screen debuild
Most/all of the usual dh_foo scripts ran in both windows.
Some kind of locking would be useful to prevent this.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-rc2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-10 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base 5.10.1-13 minimal Perl system
ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t
debhelper recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn dh-make <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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