On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:44:02PM -0400, David Becker wrote: > I upgraded to woody and can't get dpkg-deb to build packages > from source. My dpkg-deb is now 1.9.16 (i386). > > The error is: > dpkg-deb: failed to open package info file > `openssh-2.5.2p2/DEBIAN/control' for reading: No such file or directory > > > There is a debian/control file, but no all caps DEBIAN/control file. > If I rename debian to DEBIAN, dpkg-deb complains about syntax errors > in the control file. > > Is there a secret handshake to make dpkg-deb work with the lower case > "debian/control"?
You shouldn't be using dpkg-deb to build packages directly unless you're really very familiar with what's going on, and even then you'll probably only use it manually when debugging a build, if that. Use dpkg-buildpackage instead. (debian/rules constructs a filesystem tree, usually in debian/tmp or debian/<package-name>, and then uses dpkg-deb to pack that into a .deb. That tree includes various kinds of control information in the DEBIAN directory.) You should probably ask further questions of this kind on the debian-mentors mailing list. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
