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Re: Interesting dpkg issue, plus thoughts...

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:

> From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> > The problem came when the build failed telling me it couldn't chown the
> > substvars file because it didn't exist. (it was there, of course) I
> > rebooted into the old development system and the packages built fine. Both
> > the new and the old systems have the same version of dpkg (1.4.0.8) so
> > that isn't the problem.
> 
> You don't say where the problem is, or even what program issued the
> complaint. 

As I said I wasn't looking to get into a debuging session. The error came
from dpkg-buildpackage, but is related to either perl or bash. I haven't
tracked it down yet because of higher priority work.

>            You imply that debmake is invoking a dpkg tool incorrectly.

I'm sorry if I confused you with too many examples. I don't use debmake,
because I want a static rules file to work with. I have always viewed this
as a personal preference issue. Only recently have I begun to view debmake
as a significant general problem.

What I tried to provide were two examples of packaging issues that "look"
like dpkg problems. The bug I encountered and other problems created by
debmake are two examples of something that looks like a dpkg bug when it
really isn't. The most recent attempts to deal with these problems have
been to "fix" dpkg bugs. 

Thanks,

Dwarf
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