I have the following script which auto packages the blender binaries and I would like to get it released to the community. I would like this to be a single file script so all of the control file changes need to happen in an idempotent method (see current script here http://paste.ubuntu.com/8582394 ) The problem comes from the control file substitution method used on lines: 51, 52 of the script link.
When dh_gencontrol is called to first time in the binary hook, the control file is changed in the DEBIAN holding directory correctly. This works until the dpkg-genchanges program is run. Sense dpgk-genchanges has no `dh` wrapper, I cannot get the substitution variables to match when processed. It produces this error in the binary hook (last two lines) --> dh binary --parallel dh_testroot -O--parallel dh_prep -O--parallel dh_auto_install -O--parallel dh_install -O--parallel dh_installdocs -O--parallel dh_installchangelogs -O--parallel dh_icons -O--parallel dh_perl -O--parallel dh_link -O--parallel dh_compress -O--parallel dh_fixperms -O--parallel dh_strip -O--parallel dh_makeshlibs -O--parallel dh_installdeb -O--parallel debian/rules override_dh_gencontrol make[1]: Entering directory '/home/surgemcgee/tmp/blender-2.72' dh_gencontrol -- -DHomepage="http://blender.org"; -DDescription="Industry comparable 3D rendeing sofrtware for the advanced hobbiest." -DSection="Graphics;" dpkg-gencontrol: warning: Depends field of package blender: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends} make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/surgemcgee/tmp/blender-2.72' dh_md5sums -O--parallel dh_builddeb -O--parallel dpkg-deb: building package `blender' in `../blender_2.72_amd64.deb'. dpkg-genchanges -b >../blender_2.72_amd64.changes dpkg-genchanges: error: package blender has section unknown in control file but Graphics; in files list dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 255 Thanks in advanced for helping, Robert -- <surgemcgee>
