Agreed, Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you).
On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote: >>> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa >>> dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite >>> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 >>> dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED >>> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth <[email protected]> >>> dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1 >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Package' in input data in >>> general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in >>> general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Architecture' in input data >>> in general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Essential' in input data in >>> general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Depends' in input data in >>> general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Description' in input data >>> in general section of control info file >>> dpkg-source: error: Clifton Test Suite v0.1/debian/control doesn't list any >>> binary package >>> >>> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1 >>> gave error exit status 255 >>> debuild: fatal error at line 1364: >>> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed >>> >> Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout. >> >> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the >> canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there. >> >> Al. >> > I have to be honest I have no idea what is supposed to go in a debian control > file. This one was nicked and modified off the internet and I can't find any > real explaination of what is supposed to go in there. It's very surprising > things are still like this. You're supposed to just know and get it right. > The software gives you no leway. I'm sure once I've done it once it will all > become very easy but this is a bit of a nightmare. > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
