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Weird error in debhelper parsing changelog



Hi!

I'm getting a weird error from debhelper; it says that it cannot parse
the changelog:

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dh_gencontrol
parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at changelog line 6
dpkg-gencontrol: error: syntax error in parsed version of changelog at line 0: empty file
dh_gencontrol: command returned error code
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
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The weird thing with it is that dpkg-parsechangelog does not give any
errors:

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$ dpkg-parsechangelog ; echo $?
Source: turqstat
Version: 2.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: peter karlsson <peterk@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200
Changes:
 turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Cleaned up Debianization slightly.
   * Made it possible to select date ranges for input.
   * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in
     Fidonet and Usenet today.
0
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And the latest portion of the changelog looks right to me:

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turqstat (2.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * Cleaned up Debianization slightly.
  * Made it possible to select date ranges for input.
  * Added character re-encoding for most single-byte character sets used in
    Fidonet and Usenet today.

 -- peter karlsson <peterk@debian.org>  Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:45:00 +0200
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It complains about line 6, which is part of the comment. This is really
weird, does anyone have any ideas?

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