Bug#677865: dpkg-gencontrol warns about 'File::FcntlLock not available'

[Dominic Hargreaves]

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.