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Re: Problems with Lintian



On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 02:43:31PM +0200, Aaron Isotton wrote:
> whenever I check a package with lintian I get the following output:
> 
> aisotton@zarathustra:~/debian/gif2png$ lintian gif2png_2.4.6-1_i386.changes 
> internal error: error occured during execution of dpkg-source: 
> internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
> N: Skipping check of source package gif2png

> N: Processing source package gif2png (version 2.4.6-1) ...
> N: Base directory in lab: /tmp/lintian-lab.3035/source/gif2png
> N: Current unpack level is 0
> N: Unpacking package to level 1 ...
> N: Current unpack level is 1
> N: Unpacking package to level 2 ...
> N: /usr/share/lintian/unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l2 /tmp/lintian-lab.3035/source/gif2png
> internal error: error occured during execution of dpkg-source: 
> internal error: could not unpack package to desired level: No such file or directory
> N: Skipping check of source package gif2png

> I tried reinstalling lintian and dpkg-dev, but it didn't help.  I
> tracked the error down to the file /usr/share/lintian/unpack-srcpkg-l2
> where the following statement fails:
> 
> close($IN) or fail("error occured during execution of dpkg-source: $!");
> 
> I have no idea of what is happening.  I am running unstable; any
> ideas?

It seems Perl 5.8 doesn't like something in Lintian. And it's a heisenbug as
well, I can't reproduce it :(

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