On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:16:20PM -0600, Joey Hess wrote: > Will Aoki wrote: > > I'm seeing what I believe is the same problem. As far as I can tell, > > dh_builddeb really isn't generating anything because it doesn't see that > > anything exists for it to do. > > Interesting. I can't see how that would happen exactly. Can you run > alien -s , and then send me the debian/ directory it generated in this > case?
Sent in a separate e-mail not cc'd to the BTS. I noticed after I sent it that I'd included more than the debian/ directory, but it's small enough I hope it won't be a problem. Transcript: waoki@trails1:~/bts-report$ fakeroot alien -s ../MegaCli-4.00.16-1.i386.rpm Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package MegaCli: postinst postrm Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts. Directory MegaCli-4.00.16 prepared. waoki@trails1:~/bts-report$ tar czf alien-problem-megacli.tar.gz MegaCli-4.00.16/ After making the tarball, I verified that the build fails: waoki@trails1:~/bts-report$ cd MegaCli-4.00.16/ waoki@trails1:~/bts-report/MegaCli-4.00.16$ fakeroot debian/rules binary dh_testdir dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k -d dh_clean: No packages to build. dh_installdirs dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs dh_installchangelogs: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated. find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -not -name debian -print0 | \ xargs -0 -r -i cp -a {} debian/ dh_compress dh_makeshlibs dh_installdeb dh_shlibdeps dh_gencontrol dh_md5sums dh_builddeb waoki@trails1:~/bts-report/MegaCli-4.00.16$ ls .. MegaCli-4.00.16 alien-problem-megacli.tar.gz -- William Aoki KD7YAF wa...@umnh.utah.edu 1-6927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org