screwy error message from dpkg-buildpackage

["Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@kleinmann.com>]

As directed in the policy manual (the chapter on conversions), I 
-- obtained the source code for a pacakge I want to build (blurf-NN.tar.gz),
-- copied it to blurf_NN.orig.tar.gz, then
-- untar'd the source file to blurf-NN/
-- cd'd to blurf-NN
-- executed deb-make
-- customized files in debian/
-- executed dpkg-buildpackage

but got this error message:
dpkg-source: building sp using existing sp_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: error: tarfile `sp_1.1.1.orig.tar.gz' contains \
   object (sp-1.1.1/COPYING) not in expected directory (sp-1.1.1.orig)

[The line break is my own.]

It is true that the file COPYING is in the directory sp-1.1.1.orig,
and it is also in the directory sp-1.1.1.  

But why should that cause an error?

Susan Kleinmann


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