failed apt-get for debhelper

[Andrew Poodle <andrew.poodle@transactgroup.net>]

Hi,

I'm trying to install a few packages which have dependencies on debhelper..  can 
anyone suggest a solution, or where to start looking.  I've played with Linux 
before, but not debian.

when I execute the following...

apt-get -b source debhelper

I get this output, and debhelper doesn't seem to have installed...

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 148kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main debhelper 4.2.30 (dsc) [566B]
Get:2 http://ftp.uk.debian.org testing/main debhelper 4.2.30 (tar) [148kB]
Fetched 148kB in 0s (195kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting debhelper in debhelper-4.2.30
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is debhelper
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 4.2.30
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
 debian/rules clean
./dh_testdir
./dh_testroot
./dh_clean *.1 *.7 *-stamp Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
 debian/rules build
./dh_clean
DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ && ! /\.svn/ } 
@ARGV' t/*
t/dh_link...ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=7,  2 wallclock secs ( 1.39 cusr +  0.17 csys =  1.56 CPU)
./dh_clean
touch test-stamp
# Build all the man pages.
find . -type f -perm +100 -maxdepth 1 -name "dh_*" \
        -exec pod2man -c Debhelper -r "4.2.30" {} {}.1 \;
pod2man -c Debhelper -r "4.2.30" --section=7 debhelper.pod | \
        perl -e ' undef $/; foreach (@ARGV) { open (IN, $_) or die "$_: $!"; 
$file=<IN>; close IN; if ($file=~m/=head1 .*\n\n(.*?) - (.*?)\n/m) { 
$collect.=".IP $1(1)\n$2\n"; } } END { while (<STDIN>) { s/#LIST#/$collect/; 
print; }; }' `find . -type f -perm +100 -maxdepth 1 -name "dh_*" | sort` > 
debhelper.7
# Translated pages.
set -e; \
for dir in man/*; do \
        lang=`basename $dir`; \
        for file in $dir/dh_*.pod; do \
                prog=`basename $file | sed 's/.pod//'`; \
                pod2man -c Debhelper -r "4.2.30" $file $prog.$lang.1; \
        done; \
        pod2man -c Debhelper -r "4.2.30" --section=7 $dir/debhelper.pod | \
                perl -e ' undef $/; foreach (@ARGV) { open (IN, $_) or die "$_: 
$!"; $file=<IN>; close IN; if ($file=~m/=head1 .*\n\n(.*?) - (.*?)\n/m) { 
$collect.=".IP $1(1)\n$2\n"; } } END { while (<STDIN>) { s/#LIST#/$collect/; 
print; }; }' `find $dir -type f -maxdepth 1 -name "dh_*.pod" | sort` > 
debhelper.$lang.7; \
done
printf "package Debian::Debhelper::Dh_Version;\n\$version='4.2.30';" > \
        Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Version.pm
touch build-stamp
 debian/rules binary
./dh_testdir
./dh_testroot
./dh_clean -k
./dh_install -X .1 dh_* usr/bin
./dh_install Debian/Debhelper/*.pm /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/
./dh_install autoscripts usr/share/debhelper
./dh_installdocs doc/*
./dh_installexamples examples/*
./dh_installman *.1 *.7
./dh_installchangelogs
./dh_shlibdeps
./dh_link
./dh_compress
./dh_fixperms
./dh_perl
./dh_installdeb
./dh_gencontrol
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
./dh_md5sums
./dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package `debhelper' in `../debhelper_4.2.30_all.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -b
dpkg-genchanges: binary-only upload - not including any source code
dpkg-buildpackage: binary only upload (no source included)



many thanks,

a

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Andrew Poodle
Database Administrator
Transact Group Ltd

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