Hmmmm. One set of typos I made in my recent response to Ian's requests/suggestions started me thinkin about the format of the changes file "File" field. Currently, it looks like:
# File: <name> <size> <md5sum> <destination> File: e2-2.0.beta-2.deb 372254 c2680f4e26f2fe948ff8693613fd2a53 binary/editors File: e2-2.0.beta-2.diff.gz 11297 90f50714858ee192ca83ea3127072071 source/editors File: e2-2.0.beta-2.tar.gz 373090 fe1a89cb8f84671c098d21eaf410fee6 source/editors How about changing it so it looks like: Files: c2680f4e26f2fe948ff8693613fd2a53 372254 e2-2.0.beta-2.deb 90f50714858ee192ca83ea3127072071 11297 e2-2.0.beta-2.diff.gz fe1a89cb8f84671c098d21eaf410fee6 373090 e2-2.0.beta-2.tar.gz That is, an empty "Files" field, followed by a field extension with one line per file containing <md5sum> <size> <name>, whitespace-delimited.
