Dear Saira, On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:24:39PM +0100, Saira Hussain wrote: > > > > sid) and the built has finished successfully, so I guess it should work > > > > for you as well. > > > Great. I followed your suggestion on doing that. I am entering a schroot > > > and > > > the running a debuild inside there! Thanks :) > > > > > > > By chance I'm stumbling about this sentence of yours (I was a bit > > offline-ish last weekend). Please do *not* enter a schroot *manually* > > and than run anything. You should either use pbuilder or sbuild. Both > > are quite equivalent tools (I prefer pbuilder since I always had trouble > > to setup sbuild but may be that's just me) and do everything for you. > > > I was probably a bit unclear as I was trying different methods at the time. > I am now indeed using indeed pbuilder in order to create build! The problem > I had with pbuilder initially was that I got the following message: > Can't build Debian source package - dpkg-source: error: can't build with > source format '3.0 (quilt)'
Uhmmmm, I've never read that and I'm using pbuilder for >10 years. It does not make any sense at all. > I am not exactly sure why is this happening but I did find a workaround: > Delete the debian/source/format file then it happily (p) builds! That file is important and should not be deleted and I do not see any reason why this should be a problem for pbuilder. May be you have another look at the Debian Med team policy[1] seeking for pbuilder? It is better if we end up with a proper setup at your site which does not require hacks like deleting important files. > Happy to know if there's another way to avoid this error in the future or if > actually the package needs some changes to be commited and fix tihs issue. No, not really. That file is a no-brainer and should be there. Something else seems to be wrong but you need to provide more information about your setup. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://med-team.pages.debian.net/policy/ -- http://fam-tille.de