Hi Gareth, On 24 April 2014 10:47, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > .Can nobody help me with this debuild command? It just seems to throw up > endless error messages. >
Not endless, only a few. > 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 So you need an original source package and it even suggests various names for that source tarball. So you should have an for example "cliftontestsuite_0.1.orig.tar.gz" which contains the original "upstream" source. > 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 So here it says your debian/control file is missing a "Source" field. So in your case it might just be Source: cliftontestsuite. > 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 > So it looks like just two errors here. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
