** Changed in: equivs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
Status: New = Confirmed
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (bad error
message, solution provided)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85574
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** Changed in: equivs (Debian)
Status: Unknown = Unconfirmed
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (bad error
message, solution provided)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/85574
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** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #251673
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251673
** Also affects: equivs (Debian) via
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251673
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a
** Summary changed:
- equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog
(solution provided)
+ equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (bad
error message, solution provided)
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog
After installing the created package, I do realise that this was a
stupid thing to do (tm), as dpkg replaced the real package with this
metapackage. But well... you live and learn. ;-)
The bug with equivs still stands, regardless.
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided
(For the curious, see bug 72806 for why I tried this in the first
place.)
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog
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To rule out the disturbing effect of the circular dependency above, I
reproduced the bug also by running 'equivs-build foo' with the following
control file, by the name 'foo':
Package: foo
Version: 1.2
Maintainer: kko
Depends: dpkg
Architecture: all
Description: foo
bar baz
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equivs can't
** Summary changed:
- equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog
+ equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog
(solution provided)
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equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (solution
provided)
It turns out that equivs-build actually needs the maintainer field (if
present) to be of the form Maintainer: foo [EMAIL PROTECTED], so that it
contains both a name and an e-mail address. The error message it gives
(shown above) isn't really helpful.
So, running 'equivs-build foo' with both the
There is a three years old debian bug report about this issue:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251673 .
(I have previously been able to add remote bug watches, but Launchpad
interface seems to have been changed so that I can't find this
possibility anymore.)
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