❦ 30 octobre 2016 15:20 +0100, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> :
>> Kernel 2.6.11 is prehistory (literally: not in git); stretch will use 4.10
>> and absolutely requires at least 3.2, jessie ships 3.16 and requires 2.6.32,
>> to get a Debian system which will even boot on 2.6.11 you'd need to get way
>> into archive.d.o. Systems that old can't even unpack modern packages, and
>> backporting dpkg there would be a quite hard task.
>
> The code is in perl, and this is true for Linux, but this is not a
> portable assumption. In any case yes I'm aware this is annoying, and
> we have been trying to solve this in multiple ways, the last one was
> trying to get libfile-fcntllock-perl so that it could be safely
> depended by libdpkg-perl, but at this point the plan in #677865 seems
> overally more enticing. So I'm going to go with that.
Another solution would be to remove the warning when running on Linux.
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