Re: Error with debian/changelog file

[Martin Kelly <aomighty@gmail.com>]

I will consider that next package, thanks :).

The error Ted mentioned ended up being the problem I had, so thanks all.

Martin

Michael Biebl wrote:
> Ted Percival wrote:
> > Martin Kelly wrote:
> > > After trying to build my package (pyecm), I recieved the following error:
> > >
> > > martin@mkelly:~/Desktop/pyecm-0.1$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> > > parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at file
> > > debian/changelog line 5
> > > dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package is
> > >  -- Martin Kelly <aomighty@gmail.com> Sun,  8 Oct 2006 19:42:32 -0700
> > You need two spaces after your email address and before the date.
> >
> > >       -- maintainer name <email address>[two spaces]  date
> > ref:
> > <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-dpkgchangelog>
>
> To avoid such errors you can install the devscripts package and use the
> dch tool. There are alot of other useful tools in this package which are
> worth a look.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael