Re: debian/rules fails to form .deb packages
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote:
> 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:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> ------------------------------
>
> I have two questions:
>
> 1. Why doesn't debian/rules form .deb packages anymore?
dh_link was added to the debhelper package in version 1.2.9. The current
slink version is only 1.1.24. That might be the problem... Although, i
don't know why dpkg-buildpackage would work in that case.
> 2. What can I do to correct the error concerning cdrecord?
Getting the potato version of debhelper might help... Otherwise, i have no
idea.
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