retitle 219188 unintuitive handling of syntax error in Provides thanks The error message from the back end is now fairly explicit about the nature of the parsing problem, and the build fails; furthermore, the comments in template.ctl now mention that the dependency fields need to be comma-separated. I'm feeling that this is enough to close this bug. I'm leaving the final decision to the package maintainer, though. Possibly a crude syntax checker for the control file could be devised; that should certainly handle all of #219188, #251673, and #247974.
vnix$ fgrep comma /usr/share/equivs/template.ctl # Pre-Depends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Depends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Recommends: <comma-separated list of packages> # Suggests: <comma-separated list of packages> # Provides: <comma-separated list of packages> # Replaces: <comma-separated list of packages> # Extra-Files: <comma-separated list of additional files for the doc directory> vnix$ equivs-build 219188.ctl dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_installdocs dh_installchangelogs dh_compress dh_fixperms dh_installdeb dh_gencontrol dpkg-gencontrol: warning: can't parse dependency python2.2-twisted python-twisted python2.3-twisted dpkg-gencontrol: error: error occurred while parsing Provides dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280 make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1 Error in the build process: exit status 2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
