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cruppstahl
cruppstahl

Reputation: 2465

setting up a launchpad ppa: "bzr builddeb" fails

i'm trying to setup a ppa for a library that i am writing. I've spent a couple of days now and slowly move forward, but now it seems i am stuck with an error because "bzr builddeb" cannot find the debian/changelog file.

My debian control files are in the following directory:

foo-ppa/trunk/foo/debian

When i run 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d -us -uc -S' then everything works fine. But when i run "bzr builddep -S" then i get the following error:

Building using working tree
bzr: ERROR: Could not find changelog at /home/chris/prj/foo-ppa/trunk/debian/changelog in tree.

I understand that my directory structure is "wrong" (trunk/foo/debian instead of trunk/debian). But when i change the directory structure (using trunk/debian) then "bzr builddep -- -nc -us -uc" complains about the new path and returns the following error:

bzr: ERROR: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/chris/prj/foo-ppa/trunk/foo/debian/README.Debian'

The file exists, but it's in trunk/debian instead of trunk/foo/debian.

How do I have to set up the directories in order to get bzr and dpkg-buildpackage working?

Thanks Christoph

-------------- edit:

i managed to fix this by removing the build-area directory and retrying a few times. I do not know what exactly was the problem, but it's working now.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 382

Answers (1)

jelmer
jelmer

Reputation: 2450

Try the second command, but run "bzr rm" (no arguments) first. This will mark all of the files that have disappeared as removed in bazaar, and will prevent bzr-builddeb from printing that error.

Upvotes: 1

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