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#11154
dpkg-genchanges fails
Reported by: Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 03:03:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Bug#11154
; Package dpkg-dev
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Acknowledgement sent to Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.4.0.17
I am attewmpting to create a Debian package but kept getting stuck at the
same point. I am trying to create a deb file from source and everything
seems to go fine up until a certain point.
To Debianize the source code I have used both debmake and alien -s, both
give me the same results. To create the deb file I have used both build
-rsudo and dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -tc and get the same results.
The results is that i see the make clean happen, I see the binaries being
made and then installed. Then I get a line like
sudo debian/rules binary
signfile ax25-utils-2.1.37a.dsc
then pgp starts up, I type in my passphrase and it says ok
then dpkg-genchanges starts up and so does the trouble.
After a short while it says "failure: cannot read files list file: No such
file or directory".
OK, what does this mean? I got it with dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8 too.
Now, manually tracing through debian/rules works, I get my deb file,
thopugh I'm not sure if it is properly constructed.
Anyone able to help me?
- Craig
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Bug#11154
; Package dpkg-dev
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Message #10 received at 11154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
In message <199707110250.MAA06162@iggy.triode.net.au>
Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au> writes:
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Version: 1.4.0.17
> I am attewmpting to create a Debian package but kept getting stuck at the
> same point. I am trying to create a deb file from source and everything
> seems to go fine up until a certain point.
> To Debianize the source code I have used both debmake and alien -s, both
> give me the same results. To create the deb file I have used both build
> -rsudo and dpkg-buildpackage -rsudo -tc and get the same results.
> The results is that i see the make clean happen, I see the binaries being
> made and then installed. Then I get a line like
> sudo debian/rules binary
> signfile ax25-utils-2.1.37a.dsc
> then pgp starts up, I type in my passphrase and it says ok
> then dpkg-genchanges starts up and so does the trouble.
> After a short while it says "failure: cannot read files list file: No such
> file or directory".
> OK, what does this mean? I got it with dpkg-dev 1.4.0.8 too.
It looks like it want the file called "files" which is a list of all
files that will be in the .deb file (actually a list of their final
destinations (e.g. /usr/doc/tgif/Readme.gz)). I don't know where it
wants this - it may be looking for it in the build directory - often
in a directory called debian/tmp/DEBIAN/.
> Now, manually tracing through debian/rules works, I get my deb file,
> thopugh I'm not sure if it is properly constructed.
> Anyone able to help me?
I had something like this (although I think it was the control file
and not the files file) which was because I didn't have the first
line below in my rules file:
dpkg-gencontrol -v$(epoch):$(version)-$(debian)
dpkg-deb --build $(DEB) ..
then the control file could not be completed as it could find a list
of library dependencies.
Adrian
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Bug#11154
; Package dpkg-dev
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Acknowledgement sent to Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>
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Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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Message #15 received at 11154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):
I tried that command with dpkg-gencontrol -v$(epoch):$(version)-$(debian)
but then a program futher
down the track dpkg --build? then complained that the version number was
blank.
However I removed the -v line and it now works, so I have a Debian
package sitting on master!
Why doesn't this line get put into the debian/rules file? I did this with
debmake so perhaps there is a problem there?
- Craig
Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-iwj' to `dpkg'.
Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>
to control@bugs.debian.org
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Bug closed, ack sent to submitter - they'd better know why !
Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>
to control@bugs.debian.org
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Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg'.
Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org>
to control@bugs.debian.org
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