On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:21 PM Andrey Rahmatullin <
wrar@debian.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 02:05:48PM -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote:
> > > > > Besides the copyright file, I would like to test building the
> > package.
> > > > > What's the best way of doing this? I am on
> > > > > Ubuntu Eoan. Thanks!
> > > > Get a sid system (chroot is probably fine). Install and configure
> > pbuilder
> > > > or sbuild there. You will also need this system to actually test the
> > > > resulting package and act on bug reports, if you want to maintain this
> > > > package in sid.
> > > > I don't recommend running any packaging tools on non-sid, especially on
> > > > Ubuntu, unless you know the difference in behavior.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Andrey. I have followed steps to set up sid system with schroot.
> > > How can I test package build using rules file ?
> > Install and configure pbuilder or sbuild there. Build your package using
> > that.
> >
>
> Thanks, I am using
>
> dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc
I told you to use pbuilder or sbuild. They would give the same error, but
still.
> but I get the following error:
>
> dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no
> upstream tarball found at ../grok-jpeg2000_4.2.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
> Where is it looking for the tarball ?
Just like it tells you, in the parent directory. Did you put it there?
Note that it needs to have a specific name.
Thanks, solved via
dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc
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WBR, wRAR