Dear Saira,
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:24:39PM +0100, Saira Hussain wrote:
> > > > sid) and the built has finished successfully, so I guess it should work
> > > > for you as well.
> > > Great. I followed your suggestion on doing that. I am entering a schroot and
> > > the running a debuild inside there! Thanks :)
> > >
> >
> > By chance I'm stumbling about this sentence of yours (I was a bit
> > offline-ish last weekend). Please do *not* enter a schroot *manually*
> > and than run anything. You should either use pbuilder or sbuild. Both
> > are quite equivalent tools (I prefer pbuilder since I always had trouble
> > to setup sbuild but may be that's just me) and do everything for you.
> >
> I was probably a bit unclear as I was trying different methods at the time.
> I am now indeed using indeed pbuilder in order to create build! The problem
> I had with pbuilder initially was that I got the following message:
> Can't build Debian source package - dpkg-source: error: can't build with
> source format '3.0 (quilt)'
Uhmmmm, I've never read that and I'm using pbuilder for >10 years. It
does not make any sense at all.
Saira, I guess it is because you do not have an upstream tarball. I am getting a similar error with sbuild:
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../<your_package>.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
I have just tested: deleting d/source/format really makes possible to build the package without upstream tarball O_o But, of course, this is not a proper way.
To regenerate upstream tarball, I am using these commands:
$ pristine-tar list
$ pristine-tar checkout ../<tarball>
Let me know if it helps!
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Liubov