dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
[I posted this the debian-user, so it's prbably better off here]
A friend made an rpm of software he wrote. I get an error when I try to
convert it to .deb format:
$ alien --noinstall --auto ../gri-2.1.17-1.i386.rpm
[lots of successful stuff deleted, and then]
dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29
Package build failed.
This was starting from the binaries he made. I get the same error when I
start from his sources and run `deb-make' and `build' (after editing the
debian/ files).
Does anyone know what this error means? (I'm a newbie at making .deb)
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