"Mark D. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi I'm new here. I've build RPMS and freebsd ports before, but not so > with debian. > Trying to understand what is going wrong in trying to package xca > (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/xca) 0.6.4 I am following the > guides. Created the debian subfolder and relevant files (changelog, > control, rules, etc) below. > > Yet I'm getting this error... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/proj/xca/xca-0.6.4$ dpkg-buildpackage -S -rfakeroot > parsechangelog/debian: error: unrecognised line, at file > debian/changelog line 3 > dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package is > > Contents of debian/changelog: > xca (0.6.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Initial Release. > > -- Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:45:42 -0700 ^ space missing herer.
Better use a dedicated tool for editing debian/changelogs. There is a very nice debian-changelog-mode for emacs (see devscripts-el), or if you prefer vim, see the tool dch(1). -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
