On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:04:53PM -0800, Yves Arrouye wrote: > > > Whilst building my package, I get (from dpkg-dev 1.9.18, debhelper > > 3.0.51): > > > > What command did you run to do this? What you probably meant was > > dpkg-buildpackage. > > I did use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > Here's more of the log: > > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi > dpkg-source -b icu > dpkg-source: warning: source directory `./icu' is not > <sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> `icu-2.0' > dpkg-source: building icu in icu_2.0-1.tar.gz > dpkg-source: building icu in icu_2.0-1.dsc
Why is icu a Debian native package? > debian/rules build > > but the icu_2.0-1.dsc is not created at all. > > If I go to a properly named directory (my mistake; I have a properly named > icu-2.0 and a symlink icu -> 2.0/icu-2.0 to get there, and usually work from > the symlink; somehow the scripts see the name icu, not icu-2.0 after I cd'ed > there w/ zsh) then it works: Interesting; it looks like dpkg-buildpackage passed 'icu' to dpkg-source as the directory name, and dpkg-buildpackage gets the directory name directly from running pwd, at least in the current version. What happens when you run /bin/pwd in that directory? It should definitely show .../icu-2.0, not .../icu. > if test -d build -a build != source; then rm -f -r build; fi > dpkg-source -b icu-2.0 > dpkg-source: building icu in icu_2.0-1.tar.gz > > So why is dpkg-source just issuing a warning instead of failing if it really > cannot do anything? Is it looking at $CWD instead of finding out the real > location (zsh messes up w/ $CWD). Since it was trying to tar up 'icu' (which is a symlink) for whatever reason, it may be that dpkg-source tried to create a tarfile containing only that. dpkg-source just does a "tar cf -", so symlinks would not be followed. I could see how that might have caused some confusion. I agree that an error should have been reported somewhere during this process if a .dsc was not created, so if you can track down where the problem is, there may be a bug report in it. -- - mdz
