On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 04:38:54AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Here is the problem. First you should stop the line wrap. Ending the
> > paragraph with ... makes dpkg-source think that a second paragraph is
> > forthcoming. Remove the 3 periods.
>
> Thanks for your reply. It didn't help though (or I misunderstood you). Here's
> the new debian/control file :
>
>
> $less debian/s25manager-0.82/debian/control
>
> Source: s25manager
> Section: main/comm
> Priority: optional
> Maintainer: Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 2.0.0)
> Standards-Version: 3.2.1
>
> Package: s25manager
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, tcl8.2
> Description: Siemens S25 cell phone GUI manager
> S25manager is a GUI manager for the S25 series (S25, M35, M35i, etc) Siemens
> cell phones. It backs up and restores phonebooks, upload logos and midi
> files, etc.
You should hard wrap the description field at <78 characters:
Description: Siemens S25 cell phone GUI manager
S25manager is a GUI manager for the S25 series (S25, M35, M35i, etc)
Siemens cell phones. It backs up and restores phonebooks, upload
logos and midi files, etc.
> But dpkg-buildpackage reports the same problem
>
> [...]
>
> dpkg-source -b s25manager-0.82
> dpkg-source: error: per-package paragraph 2 in control info file is missing
> Package line
Can you check that you haven't put blank lines at the end of the file?
I wonder whether that might be doing it? And you don't have anything
strange like DOS line endings or something? You can check using
od -bc control | less
Julian
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