Re: When do this occur?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> wrote:
>>dpkg-gencontrol: error: source package has two conflicting values -
>>xemacs21 and gtk-xemacs21
>>dh_gencontrol: command returned error code
>[...]
>>When do dpkg-gencontrol say that there are conflicting values?
>
>When you have two Source: lines in debian/control. You should never need
>to do this; if you're creating multiple binary packages, have multiple
>blocks beginning with Package: lines.

I tell a lie, there's another possibility. Check that the changelog
names your source package correctly (i.e. by the same name as used in
debian/control).

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]