Bug#726520: dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory

2013-10-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.12 Severity: minor Dear dpkg devs, dpkg-genchanges gives a rather unhelpful error message if a package is attempted to be built on a non-supported arch. See what happens when I want to build zsnes, which is Architecture: any-i386, on amd64: $ LANG=C

Bug#726520: Acknowledgement (dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory)

2013-10-16 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Apparently, I am not the only one who finds this error message unhelpful: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-games-devel/2013-October/027974.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#726520: dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory

2013-10-16 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 13:51:40 +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.16.12 Severity: minor dpkg-genchanges gives a rather unhelpful error message if a package is attempted to be built on a non-supported arch. See what happens when I want to build zsnes, which is