Bug#531770: perl-modules: dpkg-source -x broken in file systems with ACLs due to File::Temp

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Thu Jun 4 14:14:24 UTC 2009


Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:

> Does the separate libfile-temp-perl 0.21-1 in sid fix this for you?
>
> From the 0.21 upstream changelog:
>
>     * Temp.pm: Remove the test on the parent directory to see if a file
>     can be written. This will be found out anyway as soon as the file open
>     is attempted. AFS systems may fail a -w test but still allow a file to
>     be created. (thanks to Christopher Ellison)

Indeed it does.  Thank you!  I should have checked that first.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>






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