Re: dpkg-source unhappy
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:38:54AM +0200, ericvb@debian.org wrote:
> > Here is the problem. First you should stop the line wrap. Ending the
> > paragraph with ... makes dpkg-source think that a second paragraph is
> > forthcoming. Remove the 3 periods.
>
> Thanks for your reply. It didn't help though (or I misunderstood you). Here's
> the new debian/control file :
>
>
> $less debian/s25manager-0.82/debian/control
>
> Source: s25manager
> Section: main/comm
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: Eric Van Buggenhaut <ericvb@debian.org>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 2.0.0)
> Standards-Version: 3.2.1
>
> Package: s25manager
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, tcl8.2
> Description: Siemens S25 cell phone GUI manager
> S25manager is a GUI manager for the S25 series (S25, M35, M35i, etc) Siemens cell phones. It backs up and restores phonebooks, upload logos and midi files, etc.
You should hard wrap the description field at <78 characters:
Description: Siemens S25 cell phone GUI manager
S25manager is a GUI manager for the S25 series (S25, M35, M35i, etc)
Siemens cell phones. It backs up and restores phonebooks, upload
logos and midi files, etc.
> But dpkg-buildpackage reports the same problem
>
> [...]
>
> dpkg-source -b s25manager-0.82
> dpkg-source: error: per-package paragraph 2 in control info file is missing Package line
Can you check that you haven't put blank lines at the end of the file?
I wonder whether that might be doing it? And you don't have anything
strange like DOS line endings or something? You can check using
od -bc control | less
Julian
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