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dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file

Asked by Dave Chen

I wanna build our source code on PPA, but it always complains that the file list cannot be found, I am really screwed now for I have trid bunch of times, the same issue is persistent there, can anyone help me? underneath is the rules file under debian directory:

%:
        dh $@

build:

clean:
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot

        # Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
        dh_clean

install: build
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
        #dh_clean -k
        dh_installdirs
        #./Installer/distribute_jar_packages.sh
        #./Installer/deb.sh
        #-cp ./debian/control ./debian/openattestation/DEBIAN/control
        ./ppa.sh

binary-arch: build install
        dh_testdir
        dh_testroot
        dh_installdeb
        dh_builddeb

and the disgusting message hit me is like this:

mkdir: cannot create directory `/build/buildd/openattestation-1.0.22/debian/openattestation/DEBIAN': File exists
1
-e DEB build: -------------- [ OK ]
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
dh_installdeb
dh_builddeb
INFO: pkgstriptranslations version 116
INFO: Disabling pkgstriptranslations for PPA build
INFO: Disabling pkgmaintainermangler for PPA build
INFO: Disabling pkgstripfiles for PPA build
dpkg-deb: warning: 'debian/openattestation/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Build-Depends'
dpkg-deb: warning: 'debian/openattestation/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Standards-Version'
dpkg-deb: warning: 'debian/openattestation/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field '#Vcs-Git'
dpkg-deb: warning: 'debian/openattestation/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field '#Vcs-Browser'
dpkg-deb: warning: ignoring 4 warnings about the control file(s)

dpkg-deb: building package `openattestation' in `../openattestation_1.0.13_amd64.deb'.
 dpkg-genchanges -B -mUbuntu Build Daemon <email address hidden> >../openattestation_1.0.22-1_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: arch-specific upload - not including arch-independent packages
dpkg-genchanges: error: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-genchanges gave error exit status 2
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Would you anyone kindly point it out and how to fix it? any suggestion is greatly appreciated.

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Jelmer Vernooij Edit question
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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) said : 		#1

Hello,

What's the package you're trying to build and in what PPA?

Does building locally work?

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Dave Chen (wei-d-chen) said : 		#2

Hi Jelmer,

Thanks for your reply, we can build the package locally, I have tried it many times. The package we want to build on launchpad is an opensource project, package name is openattestation, and I config the changelog like this:

openattestation (1.0.31-1) precise; urgency=high

  * Initial release (Closes: #nnnn) <nnnn is the bug number of your ITP>

 -- root <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Aug 2012 19:11:37 +0800

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) said : 		#3

Have you tried building just the arch specific bits when building locally?

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Dave Chen (wei-d-chen) said : 		#4

Jelmer, thanks for your reply. I am just a newbee, would you kindly tell me how to build the arch specific bits? any configuration in the rules? thanks!

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Dave Chen (wei-d-chen) said : 		#5

Jelmer, thanks for your reply. I am just a newbee, would you kindly tell me how to build the arch specific bits? any configuration in the rules? thanks!

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) said : 		#6

Running "./debian/rules binary-arch" should do it.

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Dave Chen (wei-d-chen) said : 		#7

yes, it works when building locally with binary-arch. I suspect there is an issue with my rules file when I try to build on lauchpad but I cannot figure it out.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) said : 		#8

You have an odd mix of different styles of rules file in here, which is not going to help you.

You should delete the build, clean, install, and binary-arch targets entirely - the "dh $@" at the top covers almost all of this already. Then, to add the one piece of customisation you actually need here:

override_dh_auto_install:
        ./ppa.sh

Make sure that the spaces before "./ppa.sh" are actually a tab character - I can't represent that properly in this comment system.

However, it looks like the error message is actually coming from your ppa.sh script, which I can't see, so I have no way to offer advice on how it should be fixed.

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