[ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Alan Pope]

On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth France <gareth.france at 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.france at 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.