Hi Iain and Andreas, Sorry for the long silence.
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ubiratan, > > as an extension to Iain's answer I like to add some points. > Thanks for those. I have thought I was progressing but was in fact getting lost. To some extend the mistake is even that you are trying to build on a > stable machine. The final package goes to unstable and it *has* *to* > build with the original libqextserialport-dev package from unstable. > Everything else will be broken. If you in addition want to provide a > backport to stable that's something else and should be dealt with in a > separate step. As said previously building a package in unstable is > usually done with pbuilder (or rather the flavour of cowbuilder). Could > you please confirm that you have setup a cowbuilder chroot using > > sudo cowbuilder --create > > > ? This is in so far essential since we need to be sure that we are > talking about the same thing and not about some local modifications at > your side which we can not reproduce. > I went back and setup the cowbuilder chroot as above. I also recreated a local git repository following as best as possible the instructions in Debian Med team policy. I wrote a local gpb.conf so that git-buildpackage uses pdebuild and cowbuilder tried to build sleepyhead using git-buildpackage. I got the same error (but in English this time :) ). Before filing a bug report please > > 1. Commit your work to a Vcs of your choice (either Git or SVN) > as described in Debian Med team policy > I think I now have a repository that I can commit to git.debian.org. I just requested membership to debian med on alioth, which I haven't done before. Thanks again for the help. Best wishes, Ubiratan.
