> Well, this is not a question. I've just spent several hours wondering > what the matter was with a package which refused to build. rules was > failing with the following message: > > dpkg-gencontrol: error: per-package paragraph 1 in control info file is > missing Package line > > I searched the archive, and found one person which had been having a > similar problem. The cause in his case was a missing blank line in > debian/control between the Source: block and the Package: block. The > cause in my case was that I had put 2 blank lines between the blocks.
Well, this is actually a bug in dpkg-gencontrol. This bug was reported as #56056 and then closed, but it seems that this bug appeared again in a newer version of dpkg-dev. Appendix C in the Debian Policy Manual tells us: C.2.2. `debian/control' ----------------------- This file contains version-independent details about the source package and about the binary packages it creates. It is a series of sets of control fields, each syntactically similar to a binary package control file. The sets are separated by one or more blank lines. The first set is information about the source package in general; each subsequent set describes one binary package that the source tree builds. So there are more than one blank lines allowed between paragraphs. Daniel Lutz -- Say NO to HTML in mail and news. GnuPG: 1024D/14E06AAF (public key available on any keyserver) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
