Bug#213315: dpkg-dev: Fails to build thinkpad-source
Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.10.15
Severity: critical
Tags: sid
Justification: breaks unrelated software
I am slapping an RC bug on this just so that this issue will be
considered before 1.10.15 is allowed to slide in to sarge.
Version 1.10.10 built a thinkpad-modules-the.kern.ver package fine.
Version 1.10.15 aborts with the following error message:
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jdthood@thanatos:/usr/src/linux-2.4.22$ make-kpkg --rootcmd=fakeroot modules-ima ge
for module in /usr/src/modules/thinkpad ; do \
[snip snip]
dh_compress
dh_fixperms
dh_installdeb
dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: error: source paragraph in control info file is missing Source line
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 6400
make[2]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/thinkpad'
make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/thinkpad'
Module /usr/src/modules/thinkpad failed.
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Now, I am quite prepared to change thinkpad-source to add a dummy
"Source:" line to debian/control, but I wonder how many other source
packages are going to be broken by this. Could dpkg-dev be easily
changed to tolerate (again) a debian/control file without a Source:
line? That would be safer at this stage of the release game.
If this is really just my bad then please reassign this bug to
thinkpad-source.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux thanatos 2.4.22 #1 Mon Sep 1 09:45:41 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE@euro
Versions of packages dpkg-dev depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.4-0.1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii cpio 2.5-1.1 GNU cpio -- a program to manage ar
ii make 3.80-4 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii patch 2.5.9-1 Apply a diff file to an original
ii perl [perl5] 5.8.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-modules 5.8.0-18 Core Perl modules.
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