Re: dh_installchangelogs: installing changelogs

[Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@ispchannel.com>]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:06:15PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote:
> I'm trying to package the new upstream version of mirrormagic.
> 
> It has a changelog in the root source directory called CHANGES.
> I figure I'm supposed to install this changelog by running 
>   dh_installchangelogs CHANGES
> which is what had worked previously.  However, when I do this, all of a
> sudden dpkg-buildpackage complains with:
> ...
> dh_installchangelogs CHANGES
> dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a native
> debian package.
> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
> 
> For some reason it appears to have gotten into its head that mirrormagic is
> Debian native.
> 
> What have I done wrong?
> 
> Drew

Whenever this has happened to me with local builds... I have forgotten
to add a Debian revision to the package number inside debian/changelog.

(I.E.  0.4.1  instead of 0.4.1-1)

Good luck