packaging xca

[Kees Cook]

Hi Mark,

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:59:02PM -0700, Mark D. Foster wrote:
> Yet I'm getting this error...
> mdf at monk:~/proj/xca/xca-0.6.4$ dpkg-buildpackage -S -rfakeroot
> parsechangelog/debian: error: unrecognised line, at file
> debian/changelog line 3
> dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package is

The debian/* files have a very strict format which is sensitive to
whitespace in particular.  I recommend using something like "dh_make" to
lay down the initial debian/* tree, and tools like "dch"[1] to manipulate
the changelog.

I think the packaging section[2] of the Devel wiki is useful, and found
the packaging tutorial[3] quite good.

Good luck!

-Kees

[1] in the "devscripts" package
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#head-86b3c262f4e4b222c867211cb06bb46523c7cc6f
[3] http://women.debian.org/wiki/English/PackagingTutorial

-- 
Kees Cook
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