Re: Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:06:21PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm getting a weird error from debhelper; it says that it cannot parse
> the changelog:
>
> ===[ cut ]===
> dh_gencontrol
> parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 6
> dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file
> dh_gencontrol: command returned error code
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> ===[ cut ]===
>
> The weird thing with it is that dpkg-parsechangelog does not give any
> errors:
>
> ===[ cut ]===
> $ dpkg-parsechangelog ; echo $?
> Source: turqstat
> Version: 2.1
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: low
> Maintainer: peter karlsson <peterk@debian.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200
> Changes:
> turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
> .
^^^^^^^
You sure about that period ?
> * Cleaned up Debianization slightly.
> * Made it possible to select date ranges for input.
> * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in
> Fidonet and Usenet today.
> 0
> ===[ cut ]===
>
> And the latest portion of the changelog looks right to me:
>
> ===[ cut ]===
> turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * Cleaned up Debianization slightly.
> * Made it possible to select date ranges for input.
> * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in
> Fidonet and Usenet today.
>
> -- peter karlsson <peterk@debian.org> Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200
> ===[ cut ]===
>
> It complains about line 6, which is part of the comment. This is really
> weird, does anyone have any ideas?
>
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