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New dpkg-buildpackage error



I have been building a debian package for several months successfully, but now 
when I try to build it in exactly the same way, dpkg-buildpackage fails. The 
command used is:

    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -i -uc -us

The package built successfully, and then appeared to run a 'make 
install' (successfully) into the debian/kalarm-upgrade/ directory. These 
messages followed:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/src/kalarm-upgrade-1.3.9'
dh_installdirs -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installdocs 
-pkalarm-upgrade  ./Changelog ./README ./README.libical ./AUTHORS ./COPYING ./INSTALL ./INSTALL.html
dh_installexamples -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installman -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installinfo -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installmenu -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installcron -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installinit -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installdebconf -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installemacsen -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installpam -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installlogrotate -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installlogcheck -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installmime -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_installchangelogs -pkalarm-upgrade
dh_install -pkalarm-upgrade
cp: cannot stat `./debian/tmp/usr/bin/kalarm': No such file or directory
dh_install: command returned error code 256
make: *** [binary-install/kalarm-upgrade] Error 1

True enough, a tmp directory doesn't exist under ./debian. Can anybody help me 
as to how I can get this build to work again. Presumably something has 
changed recently in dpkg-buildpackage?

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/linux/kalarm.html



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