Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

If you get this message:

dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with newline in its name (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest of output deleted)

You should upgrade your cpio.  Unfortunately the (Debian-specific)
change that I'm relying on wasn't documented in any changelog file, so
I don't know which versions are OK, but I do know that 2.4.2-2 works.

If someone has a version of cpio between 2.3-2 (which I know doesn't
work) and 2.4.2-2 I'd be grateful if they'd do one of the following
two tests:
 * Try to unpack a source package with it using dpkg-source
or
 * Type `cpio -Hustar -0t <anything>.tar | cat -vet' and see whether
   the output from cpio is null-terminated or newline-terminated.

I'll be making some changes to dpkg-source and the dpkg control file.

Thanks,
Ian.