Debian Bug report logs - #11154
dpkg-genchanges fails

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

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>

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#11154; Package dpkg-dev. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: dpkg-genchanges fails
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 12:50:29 +1000 (EST)
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



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#11154; Package dpkg-dev. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #10 received at 11154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adrian Bridgett <adrian.bridgett@zetnet.co.uk>
To: Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>, 11154@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#11154: dpkg-genchanges fails
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 11:47:09 +0100
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



Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#11154; Package dpkg-dev. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #15 received at 11154@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Craig Small <csmall@iggy.triode.net.au>
To: 11154@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: fpkg-genchanges not working
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 17:29:17 +1000 (EST)
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-dev' to `dpkg-iwj'. Request was from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg-iwj' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dpkg'. Request was from Anthony Towns <ajt@master.debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


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