Rakotomandimby (R12y) Mihamina wrote: > I'm learning making debian packages.
I think debian-mentors@ would be more approriate. > I get the error message you can see at the bottom of this post. > I dont understand it. Would you help me? > > Especially where to tell the package builder not to use > 'debian/minimalist/DEBIAN/control' but 'debian/control' ? You don't want that. You are looking for dh_gencontrol(1): DESCRIPTION dh_gencontrol is a debhelper program that is responsible for generating control files, and installing them into the DEBIAN directory with the proper permissions. Note that it won't be enough; you should really look into existing packages to see how it is done. Regards, Frederic