Package: autoproject Version: 0.17-1 Severity: serious From my pbuilder build log:
... dh_gencontrol dh_gencontrol: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated. dpkg-gencontrol: warning: no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process (0) dpkg-architecture: warning: no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process (0) dpkg-parsechangelog: warning: no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process (0) debian: warning: no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process (0) dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} dpkg-architecture: warning: no utmp entry available and LOGNAME not defined; using uid of process (0) dpkg-gencontrol: warning: can't parse dependency automake|automake1.7|automaken dpkg-gencontrol: error: error occoured while parsing Depends dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 2304 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 It looks like there's a missing comma after the ${shlibs:Depends} in debian/control (dpkg-gencontrol does handle removing empty parts between commas, but chokes on superfluous leading spaces). -- Daniel Schepler