On 24/04/14 11:18, Alan Pope wrote:
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.
I have already dealt with many, many errors. Trust me it feels endless
right now! So I need to compress my source? As far as I can tell it
expects to see the uncompressed version as well, the debian and usr
directories. This all seems very bizarre. The last time I had to compile
a program I wrote it was type 2 commands, never any errors and it's
done. Long live quick basic!
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