#1141164 djbsort: Autopkgtests fail: RuntimeError: An attempt has been made to start a new process

Package:
djbsort
Source:
djbsort
Description:
Sorting microlibrary - commandline tools
Submitter:
Andrey Rakhmatullin
Date:
2026-06-30 17:52:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1141164#5
Date:
2026-06-30 17:50:37 UTC
From:
To:
RuntimeError:
        An attempt has been made to start a new process before the
        current process has finished its bootstrapping phase.

        This probably means that you are not using fork to start your
        child processes and you have forgotten to use the proper idiom
        in the main module:

            if __name__ == '__main__':
                freeze_support()
                ...

        The "freeze_support()" line can be omitted if the program
        is not going to be frozen to produce an executable.

        To fix this issue, refer to the "Safe importing of main module"
        section in https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html