Re: equivs errors

["Neil Grant" <neilslists@yahoo.com>]

adding the source and change the package line has fixed it,

thanks for the fast response
Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: equivs errors


> "Neil Grant" <neilslists@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I am trying to create a dumby package for qmail, I have created a ctl
file
> >from the template (the attached file),
> [...]
> >parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted heading line, at changelog
> >line 1
>
> You need a "Source:" line in the first block of the control file;
> "Source: qmail-dummy-package" would do. You need to change "Package:
> qmail_dummy_package" to "Package: qmail-dummy-package", as underscores
> are used to separate package names from version numbers. You should
> probably also move the "Maintainer:" line to the first block of the
> control file.
>
> HTH,
>
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> Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]
>
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