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Re: (debian control) error with dpkg-gencontrol



On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, xiangfu wrote:
> Hi 
> I want to be a New Maintainer, so I follow "Debian New Maintainers' Guide "
> but when a use  "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" 

Please use debian-mentors@lists.debian.org for your packaging questions.

> dpkg-gencontrol: error: must specify package since control info has many ()

It's likely that debian/control is broken.

> here is the control file :  
>   http://code.google.com/p/pi-project/source/browse/trunk/flash-tool/debian/control

You lack an empty line between line 7 and 8.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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