Building a package for a web application

["liran tal" <liransgarage@gmail.com>]

Dear Mentors and Debian users,

While attempting to run dpkg-buildpackage to create a .deb package of the current directory
where I'm at I'm receiving the error message:

dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory

my debian/ directory reads the following files:

-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  126 2007-09-16 10:52 changelog
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  526 2007-09-17 01:57 control
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  461 2007-08-22 02:39 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran   17 2007-09-16 10:58 dirs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran 1432 2007-09-16 09:49 postinst
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran  535 2007-09-16 03:41 postrm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran  438 2007-09-16 05:11 preinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran 2410 2007-09-16 09:50 README
-rwxr-xr-x 1 liran liran   23 2007-09-16 20:56 rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 liran liran  336 2007-09-16 09:52 watch


where as the rules file is actually empty (filled with #)

Regards,
Liran.