Package: rss2email
Version: 1:2.60-1
Severity: grave

Although there is code in rss2email.py for locking the feeds.dat file
in which all the state information is stored, this is never used on
Debian systems, only on SunOS/Solaris:

,----
| unix = 0
| try:
|         import fcntl
|         if sys.version.find('sunos') != -1:
|                 unix = 1
| except:
|         pass
`----

According to the python documentation, fcntl is only available on Unix
platforms, so any check on sys.version should not be necessary at all.

I have lost the state data twice (once due to a full /home partition,
once because of multiple instances of r2e running at the same time),
thus the "Severity: grave".

Cheers,
-Hilko

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages rss2email depends on:
ii  python-feedparser             4.1-6      Universal Feed Parser for Python
ii  python-support                0.5.6      automated rebuilding support for p

rss2email recommends no packages.

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