On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:34:47AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> Daniel Schepler wrote:

> >dpkg-gencontrol: error: error occoured while parsing Recommends
> >dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 2304
> >make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1

> >That dependency line is completely broken.

> Could you send me your dependency line?

He should have said "recommends" line rather than dependency line.  He's
right:  the line is completely broken, and it's a line present verbatim in
your source package.

> The dependency line is partially built at build-time by debhelper package.
> Could you give me the version of your debhelper.
> Maybe the newer debhelper is not compatible with (maybe broken) old 
> dependencies
> variables.

> Anyway I think I will upload the new updated version in next weeks, modified
> according the newer debian policies.

This is not a newer Debian policy; newer versions of dpkg are just stricter
about requiring valid control files, which exposes this brown-paper-bag bug.

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