making .deb in equivs fails

From: joseph lockhart <jwl_andlovesaidno(at)yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 02:29:36 EST

trying to make a dummy package in equivs, followed all instructions and edited the resulting control file as root. on the equivs-build step get the following output

hiram@hiram-desktop:~/terminalphile-0.1$ sudo equivs-build terminalphile
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.

dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_clean -k

sh: cannot open terminalphile: No such file dh_clean: command returned error code
make: *** [install] Error 1
Error in the build process: exit status 2

a second run with the --full modifier returns

hiram@hiram-desktop:~/terminalphile-0.1$ sudo equivs-build terminalphile --full
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.
parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at file debian/changelog line 1
debuild: fatal error at line 623:
problem executing dpkg-parsechangelog | grep: Error in the build process: exit status 1

any ideas on what the problem is and how to fix?

jwlockhart

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Received on Tue Nov 27 02:30:46 2007