Re: no final newline in source package: how to deal with this?
On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I'm still in the stage where I don't know why dpkg-source would want
> > to check for files without final newlines, and barf on it. Yes, I
> > do know that diff says "\no final newline" (or something similar), but
> > that's all perfectly normal to me, and I really don't know why dpkg-source
> > should be so picky on files without final newlines.
>
> I agree. Maybe there's some hidden reason, like the reason we can't create
> subdirectories in packages. Maybe some other version of patch can't handle
> the "\ No newline at end of file" construct.
It is exactly the error message from diff that chokes patch.
>
> But as things stand now, it's impossible to build some packages with
> because of this problem. I'm filing a bug report.
>
I had these same problems when first building new source format packages.
You need to add a new line at the end of; changelog, control and rules in
the debian/ directory. This should resolve the problem. I'm not sure what
good a bug report will do.
Luck,
Dwarf
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