Package: equivs Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
When trying to build with a package with the --full option, the build fails: $ equivs-control test $ sed -i test -e 's!Package:.*!Package: test!' $ LC_ALL=C equivs-build --full test dpkg-buildpackage: info: source package test dpkg-buildpackage: info: source version 1.0 dpkg-buildpackage: info: source distribution unstable dpkg-buildpackage: info: source changed by Arnaud Patard <arnaud.pat...@rtp-net.org> dpkg-buildpackage: info: host architecture amd64 dpkg-source --before-build . fakeroot debian/rules clean dh_testdir dh_clean dpkg-source -b . dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../test_1.0.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b . subprocess returned exit status 255 Error in the build process: exit status 255 The issue is that /usr/share/equivs/template/debian/source/format is wrong: $ cat /usr/share/equivs/template/debian/source/format 3.0 (quilt) As mentionned by the package version and from what I understand of equivs way of working, it's a native package (no dash in the version), which means that the file content has to be "3.0 (native)". If a non-native package is really wanted, equivs should use a version like 1.0-1 and has to provide a tarball. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)