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usertag 596561 mk-build-deps
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Jon Dowland <[email protected]> wrote:
> $ mk-build-deps ccsm
> mk-build-deps: error: syntax error in ccsm at line 22: line with unknown 
> format (not field-colon-value)
> $ tail debian/control -n +20 | head -4
>  unrivalled usefulness
>  .
>  This package provides python-based "settings manager", a graphical interface
>  used to administer the various options for the compiz-fusion system.

The problem is actually that mk-build-deps determines whether its
argument is a control file or a package name by testing whether the
given argument is a readable file.  In the case of the ccsm source,
there is a file named ccsm in the root directory so mk-build-deps treats
that as a control file.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <[email protected]>




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