Bug#557717: unpack failed with error code 25
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 04:12:58PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 04:54:36PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> You need to put "3.0 (quilt)" or "3.0 (native)" in debian/source/format
>> to indicate the desired format to dpkg-source (see the dpkg-source(1)
>> manual page for more information).
> Am I doing something wrong?
> sys11:/home/brian/tree/heimdal# lintian heimdal_1.2.e1.dfsg.1-5_i386.changes
> warning: lintian's authors do not recommend running it with root privileges!
> internal error: command failed with error code 25
> warning: could not unpack package to desired level
> warning: skipping check of source package heimdal
>
> What does error 25 mean?
It's the exit status of dpkg-source. Beyond that, I don't know. If the
unpack fails, it's normally a bug in dpkg-source unless Lintian is calling
it incorrectly.
The root problem here is that, when dpkg-source fails, Lintian is not
displaying its error output since it's capturing it for later processing.
I'll fix that in the next release of Lintian, so if this happens again
you'll be able to see the dpkg-source error.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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