Re: how to fix dh_testdir error?

[Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu>]

Dear All,

thanks to Niels Thykier for pointing out the problem,
which was .

Your debian/control is not correctly formatted.
There should not be an empty line between Maintainer: and Build-Depends:
On the other hand you should have an empty line between Homepage: and
Package:

Once I fixed this syntax in control, everything worked.

CZ

Charlie Zender a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> In building the newest deb for the Debian nco package
> using DIST=sid pbuilder on my Ubuntu 9.10 system, a new error
> has crept in which I do not understand:
> 
> dh_testdir
> make: dh_testdir: Command not found
> make: *** [clean] Error 127
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit
> status 2
> 
> This seems to imply that something about the dependency
> of nco on the debhelper package is misconfigured.
> The nco control file does specify debhelper:
> 
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), antlr, bison, flex, gsl-bin,
> libgsl0-dev, libantlr-dev, netcdf-bin, libnetcdf-dev, texinfo
> 
> as can be seen in the nco debian directory viewable at
> 
> http://nco.cvs.sf.net/nco/nco/debian
> 
> The dh_testdir error did not occur the last time I
> built the package, in January.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> Charlie


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Charlie Zender, Department of Earth System Science
University of California, Irvine (949) 891-2429 :)