Hi, > > Please give more specific information. > > > Take any upstream tar-ball and debianize it with dh_make. > > Apply autotools to the package. > In the process of running autoreconf -i you will have a number of > required files created with zero contents: NEWS, ChangeLog, AUTHORS etc. > Run dpkg-buildpackage and you will get a newly crated deb-package > without warnings or errors - not lintian/linda clean off-course. > Now run pdebuild and you will see error messages like the following: > > dh_installdocs -a > cp: cannot stat `NEWS': No such file or directory > dh_installdocs: command returned error code 256 > make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 > pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
That's not pbuilder behavior; that's diff/patch, dpkg standard behavior. If the empty files are in upstream tarball, the problem won't happen, but if it's in Debian diff, zero sized files are deleted. I can reproduce the behavior with the following sequence. $ mkdir ttt-1 $ cd ttt-1 $ touch ../ttt_1.orig.tar $ gzip ../ttt_1.orig.tar $ dh_make $ touch NEWS $ dpkg-buildpackage -S -rfakeroot $ dpkg-source -x ../ttt_1-1.dsc $ ls -l [06:27:06]dancer64:ttt-1> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 dancer dancer 0 2006-08-18 06:22 NEWS drwxr-xr-x 2 dancer dancer 520 2006-08-18 06:22 debian drwxr-xr-x 3 dancer dancer 60 2006-08-18 06:25 ttt-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 dancer dancer 35 2006-08-18 06:25 ttt_1.orig.tar.gz [06:27:51]dancer64:ttt-1> ls -l ttt-1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 dancer dancer 500 2006-08-18 06:25 debian regards, junichi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED],netfort.gr.jp} Debian Project -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]