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and subject line Re: Bug#670470: mpd: fails to build .deb package with dpkg-deb
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Package: mpd
Version: 0.16.7-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
Dear Maintainer,
I installed and ran mpd from the repositories, but decided I wanted SID
and wildmidi support, so I fetched the source with apt-get source and
recompiled it. The source compiles, runs, and installs correctly via
"make install", and "checkinstall" creates a working .deb, but "dpkg-deb
-b ." in the working directory fails. First, it complains about the
lack of a "DEBIAN" directory, but there is a "debian" directory, and
symlinking the two worked. Second, and this is the meat of the problem,
it complains about errors in the DEBIAN/control file. Running
"dpkg -I" on the .deb from the repositories showed normal output, so I think
this is probably due tue a dpkg-deb format change.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 18:38 -0400, Jonathan Lane wrote:
> The source compiles, runs, and installs correctly via
> "make install", and "checkinstall" creates a working .deb, but "dpkg-deb
> -b ." in the working directory fails. First, it complains about the
> lack of a "DEBIAN" directory, but there is a "debian" directory, and
> symlinking the two worked.
As dpkg-deb(1) explains, -b assumes the DEBIAN directory has already
been created and appropriately populated. It's not intended to be used
to create binary packages from an unpacked source package, that's what
debian/rules, dpkg-buildpackage etc are for.
> Second, and this is the meat of the problem,
> it complains about errors in the DEBIAN/control file. Running
> "dpkg -I" on the .deb from the repositories showed normal output, so I think
> this is probably due tue a dpkg-deb format change.
It's more likely due to the fact that you symlinked debian -> DEBIAN.
debian/control in source packages can contain items such as substitution
variables, which are expanded during the build process; indeed, mpd's
control file contains:
Depends: mpd (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
Running the relevant targets from debian/rules will dtrt.
Regards,
Adam
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