peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes: > ===[ cut ]=== > 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 > ===[ cut ]=== Run with DH_VERBOSE=1, this will tell you exactly how dpkg-gencontrol is called. Perhaps a wrong file is parsed as a changlog?? The error is generated in line 120 of /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian. The interesting thing is that this will only be reached after a regexp match with /^ \-\-/. No line (except the real trailer, which seems ok) should match this... > ===[ cut ]=== > 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 > ===[ cut ]=== If all else fails, you could add print "### line: $_\n"; before the clerror call. This will show you the problematic line. -- Robbe
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