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 below control files (by the name 'foo') works. control file 1: Package: foo Version: 1.2 Maintainer: foo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Depends: dpkg Architecture: all Description: foo bar baz control file 2: Package: foo Version: 1.2 Depends: dpkg Architecture: all Description: foo bar baz -- equivs can't create a meta-package without a user-provided changelog (solution provided) https://launchpad.net/bugs/85574 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
