[ubuntu/karmic] mplayer 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu1 (Accepted)

[Reinhard Tartler]

Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> writes:

> mplayer (2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low
>
>   * Switch to debian packaging for the mplayer package
>   * New upstream release, LP: #336697, #260918, #246675, #243453, #74282
>   * Fixes security issues: CVE-2008-5616, LP: #308939
>   * many flv fixes LP: #73271, #347021
>   * Build and install mencoder
>   * Bump epoch

This upload failed in a way I don't really understand:

[...]
dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
dpkg-deb: building package `mencoder-dbgsym' in `../mencoder-dbgsym_1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1ubuntu1_i386.ddeb'.
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${shlibs:Depends}
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${misc:Depends}
dpkg-gencontrol: internal error: field Section has blank lines >video
	  ttf-freefont,
	  netselect | fping,
	  bzip2,
	  fontconfig
	 ,
	 
	  mplayer-doc (<< 1.0~rc3+svn20090426-1)<
Error: parsed ddeb section or priority is empty
make[1]: *** [binary-common] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/build/buildd/mplayer-1.0~rc3+svn20090426'
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: /usr/bin/fakeroot debian/rules binary gave
error exit status 2
[...]

could someone please enlighten me? On #ubuntu-devel, pochu suggested it
might have something to do with pkg-create-dbgsym, but why should it
break so horribly on this package?

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4