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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Missing perl File-FcntlLock / debhelper (dh_gencontrol) fails
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 22:20:32
Message-Id: E94CC26F-CFB0-4EC7-B5DB-EABFAF116C67@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Missing perl File-FcntlLock / debhelper (dh_gencontrol) fails by "Hans Müller"
1 On 9 May 2012, at 19:59, Hans Müller wrote:
2 > ...
3 > after some time I have to rebuild some debian packages using the debhelper
4 > scripts and recognized the following error:
5 >
6 > 'dh_gencontrol' fails with missing File/FcntlLock.pm:
7 >
8 > $> dpkg-buildpackage -b -d
9 > ...
10 > dh_gencontrol
11 > Can't locate File/FcntlLock.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl
12 > ...
13 >
14 > I don't understand why the File-FcntlLock package is not provided by portage
15 > (at least I didn't find any corresponding package) - it looks like it has been
16 > removed from portage tree (as the problem did not occur in the past - even
17 > though I could not find any entry regarding an uninstall in emerge.log either).
18
19 Have you upgraded dev-util/debhelper recently?
20 Since you last used `dh_gencontrol`, at least?
21
22 I'll bet this is a new dependency of the debhelper scripts, not something else removed from Portage.
23
24 File a bug.
25
26 Stroller.