Re: deb from source

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Ok, i started again, but i still get the md5sum error. Could the
> > downloaded debian package be in error?
>
> With the errors you're getting, this seems unlikely.
>
> > I've downloaded it twice from the bottom of this page:
> > http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libgtk2.0-dbg.html
> >
> > ~/SRC/GTK2: dpkg-source -x gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc
> >
> >    dpkg-source: extracting gtk+2.0 in gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> >
> > ~/SRC/GTK2: ls
> >
> >    gtk+2.0-2.2.1  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.diff.gz  gtk+2.0_2.2.1-6.dsc  
> >    gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> >
> > ~/SRC/GTK2: cd gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> >
> > ~/SRC/GTK2/gtk+2.0-2.2.1: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot
>
> [...]
>
> > dpkg-source -b gtk+2.0-2.2.1
> > dpkg-source: building gtk+2.0 using existing gtk+2.0_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
> > dpkg-source: failure: md5sum gave bogus output `'
>
> What versions of dpkg and dpkg-dev do you have installed?

I found the problem was solved by upgrading to dpkg-dev from testing.
I had upgraded dpkg, but didn't know there was a dpkg-dev.