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Re: package building problems



On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 07:48:13PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> i just got a mail from the autobuilder telling me about building
> problems of gjay_0.1.3-1(hppa/unstable). the problem reduces to this:
> 
>   dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file
>   or directory
> 
> it works on i386, and i haven't yet heard anything from any other
> architecture.

If it helps, the "files list file" is debian/files, and it's written by
dpkg-gencontrol. A quick look at the package suggests that it's breaking
because you're building an architecture-dependent package in the
binary-indep target of debian/rules. The autobuilders naturally only run
binary-arch.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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