Bug#708607: Undefined subroutine main::_ called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/File.pm

2013-05-17 Thread Lincoln Myers
Package: libdpkg-perl Version: 1.16.10 A co-worker got the following error while building a package: dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::FcntlLock not available; using flock which is not NFS-safe Undefined subroutine main::_ called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/File.pm line 41. Apparently, in this

Bug#708607: Undefined subroutine main::_ called at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/File.pm

2013-05-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 16 May 2013, Lincoln Myers wrote: Apparently, in this situation the build was being done in a filesystem where flock() fails to lock. I believe libdpkg-perl was unable to report the real error properly because it is translating the error message using nonexistent subroutine _. I