-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johann Spies wrote:
> Previously I used dpkg-source -x <source>.dsc and debian/rules to create > .deb packages from files in potato/main/source for my slink system. > > The last few times however it failed and I had to do dpkg-buildpackage to > get .deb's. Why would that be? I was the case with postgresql_6.5, pine, > cdrecord-1.8a23 and few others. > > With cdrecord I got the following error message: > ------------------------------------------------------- > dh_movefiles -pmkisofs > -P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs > # FOrce a symlink so all three binaries use the same manpage. > dh_link -pmkisofs > -P/usr/src/cdrecord-1.8a23/debian/build/mkisofs usr/man/man8/isoinfo.8 \ > usr/man/man8/isodump.8 > make: dh_link: Command not found > make: *** [mkisofs] Error 127 > ------------------------------ > > I have two questions: > > 1. Why doesn't debian/rules form .deb packages anymore? dh_link was added to the debhelper package in version 1.2.9. The current slink version is only 1.1.24. That might be the problem... Although, i don't know why dpkg-buildpackage would work in that case. > 2. What can I do to correct the error concerning cdrecord? Getting the potato version of debhelper might help... Otherwise, i have no idea. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN8R/cr7M/9WKZLW5AQEK+wQAlqNUc5z+TdWRsyQJqYzm/6EpYwcpMafv tX/upLICRPPRJRBo2ikH9XXClqB7YgoPOQb1D0W9BYTRSoHDzfKnplcjrWtR154V 55mjiLm3VOgBwF3ZLgc2w6kt4RfCULgBL3FYDK/GK1HE2/e6eav2GHtQD9IWRE/F j6RjctxZbsk= =gpeo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----