[Gambas-devel] Gambas projects not compiling on Ubuntu or Debian

[Geoffrey De Belie]

Hi,

Since I'm using Gambas, I noticed that generating deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu/Mint fails, however it reports it has succeeded. This is both on 32 and 64 bit (Ubuntu-based Linux distribution).

Make build directory
Make desktop file...
Sources are being debianizated.
Making package...
cd /home/mint/Documenten/niceadd-0.0.1
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -d
getopt: invalid option -- 'd'
fakeroot, create a fake root environment.
   usage: fakeroot [-l|--lib fakerootlib] [-f|--faked fakedbin]
                   [-i file] [-s file] [-u|--unknown-is-real]
                   [-b|--fd-base fd] [-h|--help] [-v|--version]
                   [--] [command]
The packages were succesfully made.

I think that fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage -d should be:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

This is according to a message from 2007: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/07/msg00168.html

I couldn't find which file the source code for generating packages contains, so I'm posting it here. Alien does a great job converting RPMs to DEBs, however, I think it "forgets" about files being attached/included to a deb package.

Kind regards,
Geoffrey De Belie