[Gambas-user] [reported on irc] Failed to build deb package on linux mint

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 22 septembre 2008, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> This case was reported on irc:
> Linux is an Ubuntu derivative distro. Gambas is 2.8.2 and package creation
> fail on a letter in upper case.
>
> ---8<---
> Creating package for Debian.
> Making build directory.
> Creating desktop file...
> Sources are being debianizated.
> Creating package...
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
> dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package buttonlist
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0-0
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Brittany Dunlap <goofybritt at ...626...>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
>  debian/rules clean
> dh_testdir
> dh_testroot
> rm -Rf `find . -name ".gambas"`
> rm -Rf `find . -name "*.gambas"`
> rm -f build-stamp install-stamp
> dh_clean
> dh_clean: Compatibility levels before 4 are deprecated.
>  dpkg-source -b buttonlist
> dpkg-source: error: source package name `ButtonList' contains illegal
> character `B'
> dpkg-buildpackage: failure: dpkg-source -b buttonlist gave error exit
> status 255
> The package build has failed.
> Package.MakeDebPackage.424: 'dpkg-buildpackage' has failed
> ---8<---
>
> Regards,
>

Maybe uppercase characters are forbidden in debian packages?

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Benoit Minisini