Bug#240887: Package building problem.

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Hi Kurt,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 29.03.04 Kurt Roeckx (Q@ping.be) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> There is a problem making the package.  I get:
>> cp debian/update-texmf.8 debian/tetex-bin/usr/share/man/man8/
>> cp: cannot create regular file `debian/tetex-bin/usr/share/man/man8/update-texmf.8': No such file or directory
>> 
>> It seems the debian/tetex-bin/usr/share/man/man8 dir is missing.
>> I've worked aroud this problem by creating that dir.
>> 
> I tried to build that package. The command to create that dir is
> issued a long time before that cp-command.
[...]
> dunno why he prints out the absolute pathnames. Could you please
> remove the dir debian/ and try to repeat?

This was presumably a typo by Hilmar, you should delete the
debian/tetex-bin/ directory - or simply the whole hierarchy, and try
again. 

If that works, you must have messed up something manually. In this case,
please close the bug by sending mail to 240887-done@bugs.debian.org

Thank you, Frank

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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie