** 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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equivs can't
