Hello Debian developers & users! Last time I needed to recompile after small modification one of debian packages (mgetty - because the autodetection procedure did not recognize correctly my modem). Unfortunately building of this package lead to error message at the final step of the whole procedure:
Error occuring in dpkg-gencontrol: ------------------------------------------------------------------ dpkg-gencontrol -pmgetty dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek make: *** [binary-arch] Error 29 ------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought that the problem is in the mgetty's source tree, so I tried to rebuild some others packages - results were the same or pretty the same: Errors occured in dpkg-gencontrol, and sometimes in dpkg-shlibdeps. Error occuring in dpkg-shlibdeps: ------------------------------------------------------------------- dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: chown of `debian/substvars.new': No such file or directory ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lines causing error were the only lines where "@fowner" variable is used. I'm not Perl programmer, but anyway it seems to me, that this variable is not initialized neither in dpkg-gencontrol nor in dpkg-shlibdeps. I'm using debmake ver. 3.3.1, dpkg ver. 1.4.0.8, dpkg-dev ver. 1.4.0.8 & perl ver. 5.003.07-10 What can be the reason of my problem? Please answer preferrably by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you in advance Wojciech Zabolotny -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .