Thanks Niels, I ended up removing the two conflicting tar options from the two files which had them, and then striking the dependency from dpkg. For what I'm doing, I don't need the .deb's to come up byte-identical when the source is unchanged.
You are also correct; I could have just used debhelper from backports. Regards, Bill On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> wrote: > On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 12:11:34 -0400 William Herrin <her...@dirtside.com> > wrote: > > Package: dpkg > > Version: 1.18.24 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where > appropriate *** > > > > * What led up to the situation? > > Want to build quagga 1.1 on a Jessie machine > > won't build because debhelper < version 10 > > [...] > > Hi, > > (Not the dpkg maintainer, but ...) > > Have you considered using the debhelper/10.2.5~bpo8+1 release from > jessie-backports? Assuming you just need debhelper (>= 10) that should > be sufficient. :) > > FYI/FTR: The backported version of debhelper works without dpkg 1.18 by > disabling some features[1]. I suspect none of them are critical for > your use-case (although, the lack of dbgsym packages can be inconvenient) > > Thanks, > ~Niels > > [1] > > * Existing changes from previous bpo releases: > > - Disable automatic dbgsym as it requires dpkg-dev 1.18.2 > > - Revert of sgml-base trigger as it needs a newer version > > of sgml-base (Related bug: #825005) > > -- William Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: <http://www.dirtside.com/>
