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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org