Package: vmware-package Version: 0.8 Severity: wishlist
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: James Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: vmware-package: No validation on maintainer option Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: reportbug 3.38 Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:52:51 +1000 Package: vmware-package Version: 0.8 Severity: wishlist While attempting to build a vmware-server package I used the following swith --maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This seemed to work, but caused compilation to fail when a script midway through the process tried to parse the changelog and failed. --maintainer "James Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" Worked as expected. It'd be nice to describe this in more detail in the docs and/or have a check to make sure the format is correct as early in the process as possible. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vmware-package depends on: ii debhelper 5.0.53 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5 package building tools for Debian ii fakeroot 1.7.1 Gives a fake root environment ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util ii module-assistant 0.10.11 tool to make module package creati ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o vmware-package recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-jh (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages vmware-package depends on: ii debhelper 5.0.53 helper programs for debian/rules ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5 package building tools for Debian ii fakeroot 1.7.1 Gives a fake root environment ii make 3.81-3 The GNU version of the "make" util ii module-assistant 0.10.11 tool to make module package creati ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o vmware-package recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
