Re: Not a valid DEB package error

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:57:16PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created some DEB packages, and everything is OK with one exception:
> for every package that I created, at instalation time, I get the
> following error (on Debian Stable and also on Debian Unstable):
> 
> # apt-get install foo
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   foo 
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
> Need to get 2449kB of archives. After unpacking 3121kB will be used.
> Get:1 http://mtudor-l.aa.local pool/ foo 1.1.3-4 [2449kB]
> Fetched 2449kB in 0s (10.5MB/s)  
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/foo_1.1.3-4_i386.deb not a valid DEB package.
Reading the apt source, that error only occurs when the .deb is
missing a control.tar.gz.  I take it you are not using dh_make?  :)

Justin