Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the time for it.
On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:28, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France <gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa >> dpkg-buildpackage: source package cliftontestsuite >> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1 >> dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED >> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Gareth <gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk> >> dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1 >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Package' in input data in >> general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in >> general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Architecture' in input data >> in general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Essential' in input data in >> general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Depends' in input data in >> general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Description' in input data >> in general section of control info file >> dpkg-source: error: Clifton Test Suite v0.1/debian/control doesn't list any >> binary package >> >> dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build Clifton Test Suite v0.1 >> gave error exit status 255 >> debuild: fatal error at line 1364: >> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S -sa failed >> > > Looks like some other errors in your debian/control file layout. > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html is the > canonical (heu) documentation for what should be in there. > > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
