Re: debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

1999-08-26 Thread Brad
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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
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 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.

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debian/rules fails to form .deb packages

1999-08-25 Thread Johann Spies
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?  2. What can I do
to correct the error concerning cdrecord?

Johann


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