On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:06:15PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > I'm trying to package the new upstream version of mirrormagic. > > It has a changelog in the root source directory called CHANGES. > I figure I'm supposed to install this changelog by running > dh_installchangelogs CHANGES > which is what had worked previously. However, when I do this, all of a > sudden dpkg-buildpackage complains with: > ... > dh_installchangelogs CHANGES > dh_installchangelogs: Cannot specify an upstream changelog for a native > debian package. > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 > > For some reason it appears to have gotten into its head that mirrormagic is > Debian native. > > What have I done wrong? > > Drew
Whenever this has happened to me with local builds... I have forgotten to add a Debian revision to the package number inside debian/changelog. (I.E. 0.4.1 instead of 0.4.1-1) Good luck
