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Re: making .deb in equivs fails

From: Alex Samad <alex(at)samad.com.au>
Date: Tue Nov 27 2007 - 15:05:32 EST

On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:29:36PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote:
> 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?

I am not an expert on this, but have dabbled here recently.

seems like there is a problem in debian/changelog, there is a specific format for them, something like

custom-apt (0.2) unstable; urgency=low

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- Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:42:40 +1100

I would guess the script that is making the change log for you is screwing up the date field (find the line and replace it with date -R

alex

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