Niall Young wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Device-SerialPort/Device-SerialPort-0.10$ dpkg-genchanges > -fdebian/Device-SerialPort.files > dpkg-genchanges: error: badly formed line in files list file, line 1 > > whose contents is: > > etc > etc/Device > usr > usr/lib > usr/lib/perl5 > usr/lib/perl5/5.005 > usr/lib/perl5/5.005/util-linux > usr/local > usr/local/lib > usr/local/lib/site_perl > usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux > > What am I doing wrong? Is there a utility to generate a fileslistfile > or am I just going about this the wrong way?
Generation of debian/files is normally accomplished by dpkg --build, which invokes dpkg-distaddfile. This is often encapsulated and accomplished automatically in a call to dh_builddeb, if you are using debhelper. You're misunderstanding what the file is for. This is not rpm. The files list file lists .deb files (and sometimes other files) that are generated by a debian package, and is used by dpkg-genchanges to generate a .changes file. It includes md5sum and size information. If you are using debhelper, the most likely cause of this problem would be calling dh_clean in a binary-* rule of debian/rules without passing the -k flag. dh_clean(1) describes this scenario in the documentation of the -k flag. If you are not using debhelper, the most likely cause of this problem is not properly running dpkg-deb by hand. You may find the developers-reference package useful reading. -- see shy jo
