Bug#966072: lintian: Cannot pipe() - Too many open files

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

Hi Felix,

On 7/22/20 5:57 PM, Felix Lechner wrote:
> But I cannot reproduce the behavior locally. (See working tag output
> below.) Are you using a resource-constrained system?

Not really ;-)
(And /tmp didn't run full either, 40 GB free)

> Also, I have a non-standard setup locally in /etc/security/limits.d:
> 
> #<domain>      <type>  <item>         <value>
> *        hard    nofile        65536
> *        soft    nofile        65536

Everything is on defaults, i.e. ulimit -n returns 1024

> % ./frontend/lintian
> /mirror/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/nvidia-cuda-toolkit_10.1.243-7.dsc
> /mirror/debian/pool/non-free/n/nvidia-cuda-toolkit/nvidia-cuda-toolkit_10.1.243-7_amd64.deb

Wrong package tested? I can reproduce this with
$ lintian nvidia-cuda-dev_10.1.243-7_amd64.deb
(and the just uploaded -8, too)

Andreas