Gabor,
I had *exactly* the same problem with gs-aladdin from woody
yesterday. I am new to source debs, but also tried to build it with
pdpkg-deb -b and got the same sequence of errors.
As you did I removed the spare line, and put in a version number, but
the dependancy line foxed me. So are we doing something wrong? We
must be - it can't be a problem with both sources.
Tom
On 27 9:35 pm, Gabor Gludovatz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded the apache 1.3.12 sources and wanted to make a deb
> from it but dpkg-deb -b apache-1.3.12 says:
> dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file
> `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or
> directory
>
> I rename apache-1.3.12/debian to DEBIAN and then the same command
> again:
>
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' near
> line 7: missing package name
>
> ok, there was a spare new line on the 7th line. I deleted it.
> then I did a dpkg-deb -b apache-1.3.12 again:
>
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `apache-1.3.12/DEBIAN/control' near
> line 9 package `apache':
> `Depends' field, invalid package name `${shlibs:Depends}': must
> start with an alphanumeric
>
> that's all. what shall I do now?
>
> can my dpkg-deb be too new? (1.6.15 (i386))
>
>
> I'd like to make an apache with frontpage extension but first I
> wanted to make a deb file from the original source...
>
> thanx in advance
>
> ps.: does someone know of an apache+frontpage.deb? then I needn't
> to bother with dpkg-deb.
