Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: normal Hi,
in an upstream package that I want to package, there is a symlink debian/changelog -> ../changelog which I need to replace with an own file. Since the new source format 3.0 (quilt) should replace debian/* with Debian's own files, this should work. However, I get the following error message: ======================================================================== $ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -S dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): dpkg-buildpackage: source package guitarix dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.10.0-1 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Roland Stigge <[email protected]> fakeroot debian/rules clean dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp ./waf distclean 'distclean' finished successfully (0.013s) dh_clean dpkg-source -b guitarix-0.10.0 dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)' dpkg-source: info: building guitarix using existing ./guitarix_0.10.0.orig.tar.bz2 dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to guitarix-0.10.0/debian/changelog: dpkg-source: error: new version is plain file dpkg-source: error: old version is symlink to ../changelog dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b guitarix-0.10.0 gave error exit status 2 $ ======================================================================== This shouldn't occur since in this case, dpkg-source shouldn't "represent change to guitarix-0.10.0/debian/changelog" at all. It should accept whatever files are provided by Debian's new contents and strip everything else (from upstream). To reproduce the above error, you can download http://people.debian.org/~stigge/guitarix.tar.gz Thanks for considering. bye, Roland -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.5-1 GNU core utilities ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-4 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii xz-utils 4.999.9beta+20100713-1 XZ-format compression utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
