[ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Alan James Jenkins]

Agreed,

Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you).

On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France <gareth.france at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope 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.
>> 
> I have to be honest I have no idea what is supposed to go in a debian control file. This one was nicked and modified off the internet and I can't find any real explaination of what is supposed to go in there. It's very surprising things are still like this. You're supposed to just know and get it right. The software gives you no leway. I'm sure once I've done it once it will all become very easy but this is a bit of a nightmare.
> 
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