Re: lintian errors?

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:05:59PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
>     >> when trying to inspect my package with lintian, I get all sorts
>     >> of weird and wonderful errors, from the changes file. However,
>     >> everything looks OK to me. Any ideas?
>     >> 
>     >> [522] [snoopy:unstable:bam] ~/source/ext2fs >ls -l
>     >> heimdal_0.3e-6.diff.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 bam bam 597972 Jun 12 10:48 heimdal_0.3e-6.diff.gz
                                                     ~~~~~~
>     >> 
>     >> f545b05f1b87e2e2d8508bda1fd8ff70 597927 non-US optional heimdal_0.3e-6.diff.gz
                                          ~~~~~~
>     >> 
>     >> what size should it be?
> 
>     Josip> Well, isn't it obvious that they need to be synchronized? 
>     Josip> :)
> 
> But the file sizes *are the same*,

Uh, looking at the underlined strings above, no, they are not. One is 45
bytes larger than the other.

> and this was after I rebuilt everything with dpkg-buildpackage.
> 
> (for some reason dpkg-buildpackage didn't ask me to sign the *.dsc
> file, so I had to manually invoke debsign. Maybe that is the problem?)

That might be it...

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