Hi again,

I thought it would be good to add the actual warning, so you do not
have to go read blogs to figure it out.

Use of uninitialized value $sourcepackage in sprintf at /usr/bin/dpkg-source 
line 290.

To reproduce it, simply do:

$ mkdir debian
$ dch --create --package test --newversion 1.0 'Initial packaging (Closes: 
XXXXXX)'
$ cp -a /usr/share/doc/debhelper/examples/rules.tiny debian/rules
$ chmod +x debian/rules
$ touch debian/control
$ dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): 
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 test
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
 dpkg-source --before-build test
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
Use of uninitialized value $sourcepackage in sprintf at /usr/bin/dpkg-source 
line 290.
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
dh: No packages to build.
 dpkg-source -b test
Use of uninitialized value $sourcepackage in sprintf at /usr/bin/dpkg-source 
line 290.
dpkg-source: warning: no source format specified in debian/source/format, see 
dpkg-source(1)
dpkg-source: warning: source directory 'test' is not 
<sourcepackage>-<upstreamversion> 'test-1.0'
dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0'
dpkg-source: info: building test in test_1.0.tar.gz
dpkg-source: warning: missing information for output field Maintainer
dpkg-source: warning: missing information for output field Standards-Version
dpkg-source: info: building test in test_1.0.dsc
 debian/rules build
dh build
dh: No packages to build.
 fakeroot debian/rules binary
dh binary
dh: No packages to build.
 dpkg-genchanges  >../test_1.0_i386.changes
dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2





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