Hi! On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:53:12 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.17.10 > Severity: minor > > If you remove a binary file, and then try to build source package with the > --include-removal option, the error message is rather unhelpful: > > $ apt-get source -qq hello > dpkg-source: info: extracting hello in hello-2.9 > dpkg-source: info: unpacking hello_2.9.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: info: unpacking hello_2.9-1.debian.tar.xz > dpkg-source: info: applying 99-config-guess-config-sub > > $ rm -v hello-2.9/po/pl.gmo > removed ‘hello-2.9/po/pl.gmo’ > > $ dpkg-source --include-removal -b hello-2.9/ > dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' > dpkg-source: info: building hello using existing ./hello_2.9.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to ../../../../../../dev/null: > binary file contents changed > dpkg-source: error: add ../../../../../../dev/null in > debian/source/include-binaries if you want to store the modified binary in > the debian tarball > dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source
Ah indeed! I'm fixing this for 1.17.11. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

