Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
close 632839 8.82 thanks I see. This was fixed in the next version of alien after the one you're using, 8.82. * Print a nice error message when attempting to build a deb from a package of an unsupported architecture. Closes: #592625 -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signa

Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-08-31 Thread Will Aoki
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:04:21PM -0600, Joey Hess wrote: > You seem to have an older version of debhelper than I. What version? > Also, what debian architecture are you building on? > > With debhelper 8.9.4 on i386, this builds successfully. It's debhelper 8.0.0 on x86_64, the same as the origi

Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-08-28 Thread Joey Hess
Will Aoki wrote: > Sent in a separate e-mail not cc'd to the BTS. I noticed after I sent it > that I'd included more than the debian/ directory, but it's small enough > I hope it won't be a problem. I'm on dialup, but I was busy for an hour with other things so it did not bother me much. > waoki@

Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-08-28 Thread Will Aoki
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 04:16:20PM -0600, Joey Hess wrote: > Will Aoki wrote: > > I'm seeing what I believe is the same problem. As far as I can tell, > > dh_builddeb really isn't generating anything because it doesn't see that > > anything exists for it to do. > > Interesting. I can't see how th

Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
Will Aoki wrote: > I'm seeing what I believe is the same problem. As far as I can tell, > dh_builddeb really isn't generating anything because it doesn't see that > anything exists for it to do. Interesting. I can't see how that would happen exactly. Can you run alien -s , and then send me the de

Bug#632839: alien reporting deb generated while actually failling

2011-08-26 Thread Will Aoki
I'm seeing what I believe is the same problem. As far as I can tell, dh_builddeb really isn't generating anything because it doesn't see that anything exists for it to do. Working in a fakeroot environment on an amd64 system, I ran 'alien --veryverbose -g MegaCLI-4.00.16-1.i386.rpm' to unpack the