On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 02:39:03PM -0300, Rafael Caetano dos Santos wrote: > While trying to build a package (using debhelper), I got the following > message from dpkg-buildpackage: > > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to foo: binary file contents changed > > for every binary file foo (executable or library). > > What does it mean?
Exactly that - a binary file has been changed, and binary changes can not be represented with our source packaging system (and they shouldn't need to be). > Should I do a 'make clean' after 'make install' in rules?? You just have to have a totally clean source tree when you build your package. That means that the clean: rule in your debian/rules file MUST clear all signs of binaries and otherwise unneccessary files that were generated during the build. It is usually a good idea to read the toplevel Makefile and examine its ability to clean after itself - if it can't, you have to modify it yourself or include necccessary cleaning in your clean: rule in the debian/rules file. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
