Package: debhelper Version: 4.9.8 Severity: normal I think dh_make should use the symlink name and not the underlying real name. It is important to remember what is the original package name and how it unpacks itself.
# ls brx.src-1.6.0.tar.gz # tar zxvf *gz ... browsex/blt/INSTALL browsex/blt/MANIFEST browsex/blt/Makefile.gnu browsex/blt/Makefile.in # ln -s brx.src-1.6.0.tar.gz browsex-1.6.0.orig.tar.gz # ln -s browsex browsex-1.6.0 # cd browsex-1.6.0 # dh_make -c gpl The directory name must be <package>-<version> for dh_make to work! I cannot understand the directory name or you have an invalid directory name! Your current directory is /usr/src/net/browsex, perhaps you could try going to directory where the sources are? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20050902-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils 5.2.1-2.1 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.4.58 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-2 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.7-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.9.0 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]