debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

Previously I used dpkg-source -x <source>.dsc and debian/rules to create
.deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. 

The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to
get .deb's.  Why would that be?  I was the case with postgresql_6.5, pine,
cdrecord-1.8a23 and few others.

With cdrecord I got the following error message:
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dh_movefiles         -pmkisofs
-P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs
# FOrce a symlink so all three binaries use the same manpage.
dh_link              -pmkisofs
-P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs usr/man/man8/isoinfo.8 \
					    usr/man/man8/isodump.8
make: dh_link: Command not found
make: *** [mkisofs] Error 127
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I have two questions:

1. Why doesn't debian/rules form .deb packages anymore?  2. What can I do
to correct the error concerning cdrecord?

Johann


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