Source: zc.lockfile Section: python Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Python Team Uploaders: Julien Muchembled , Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-python3, pybuild-plugin-pyproject, python3-all, python3-setuptools, Build-Depends-Indep: python3-zope.testing, python3-zope.testrunner, Standards-Version: 4.7.2 Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-python Homepage: https://github.com/zopefoundation/zc.lockfile Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/zc-lockfile.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/zc-lockfile Package: python3-zc.lockfile Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends}, Description: Basic inter-process locks for Python 3 The zc.lockfile package provides a basic portable implementation of interprocess locks using lock files. The purpose if not specifically to lock files, but to simply provide locks with an implementation based on file-locking primitives. Of course, these locks could be used to mediate access to *other* files. For example, the ZODB file storage implementation uses file locks to mediate access to file-storage database files. The database files and lock file files are separate files.