[ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Alan James Jenkins]

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 <alan at popey.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
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