I have muddled my way through the packaging process so far and I have to
say it feels like pulling teeth! I know Canonical had that big drive a
while back to get more people publishing, I can see why they don't! Why
isn't there an easy way to publish your code yet? I'm 99% of the way
there and totally stuck.
I am using the command debuild -S -sa to attempt to package up my
program for submitting to the software centre. First it complained like
mad about not having a changelog, then it was complaining about
debian/rules and now debian/control. The error I'm getting is:
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be
an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory;
(expected one of cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.gz,
cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.bz2,
cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.lzma, cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.xz or
Clifton Test Suite v0.1.orig)
continue anyway? (y/n) y
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa
dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth <gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk>
dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1
dpkg-source: error: syntax error in Clifton Test Suite
v0.1/debian/control at line 9: first block lacks a source field
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite
v0.1 gave error exit status 255
debuild: fatal error at line 1364:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed
Can anyone please shed some light on how exactly you do this?
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