Re: Building Deb packages for source?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:40:02AM -0700, William Crowshaw wrote:
> Why is it that everytime I apt-get source a package and try to build
> it with dpkg-buildpackage, I run into the problem that it looks for a
> director called "DEBIAN" with all the revelant debian information when
> the source package itself contains a directory called "debian" (note
> the case change).
Are you sure you're using dpkg-buildpackage? It sounds like you're
actually using 'dpkg --build', which is not the same thing and is
actually a low-level tool that you should probably avoid.
If I'm wrong, please provide a transcript of what's going wrong.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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