> 5. I don't understand the problem with WIFSIGNALED, but this is > definitely a bug in the Perl installation and not in dpkg-source.
So the WIFSIGNALED thing has to do with perl. Here is some about the perl I have installed on my system. Erick $ dpkg --status perl Package: perl Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: devel Maintainer: Darren Stalder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: perl Version: 5.003-2 Pre-Depends: libc5, libgdbm1, libdb1 Recommends: libc5-dev Description: Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language. An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw". . Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extendible via modules that can interface to C libraries. $ ls -l /bin/perl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jul 3 11:29 /bin/perl -> ../usr/bin/perl $ /usr/bin/perl -v This is perl, version 5.003 with EMBED built under linux at Jul 1 1996 10:21:20 + suidperl security patch Copyright 1987-1996, Larry Wall Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit. $ /usr/bin/perl -V Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 3 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osver=2.0.0, archname=i486-linux uname='linux perv 2.0.0 #2 tue jun 11 01:31:01 pdt 1996 i486 ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer', gccversion=2.7.2 cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/include/db -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/include/db -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false voidflags=15, castflags=0, d_casti32=define, d_castneg=define intsize=4, alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, randbits=31 Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -ldld -lm -lc libc=/lib/libc.so.5.2.18, so=so Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' @INC: /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.003 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i486-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl . $