New comment by ahesford on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/24191#issuecomment-671437108 Comment: I would drop the message and the test for existence and just `rm -f` the lock silently. There's no need to call attention to the lock in case of error, and `rm -f` won't complain if it tries to remove a nonexistent file.