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2009-03-17 , 20:20
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Originally Posted by mikkov View Post
Are you building the package with dpkg-buildpackage?

Non-related suggestions:

use "Architecture: all" since this is pure python application

with "XB-Maemo-Display-Name:" field you can get better formatted title, for example "XB-Maemo-Display-Name: Quickclip"
I'm using dpkg-deb --build <source directory name> to build the package. When I tried using dpkg-buildpackage I was getting all kinds of errors, most notably a "dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source" error; even with that error, a *.tar.gz, *.dsc and some other files were created, but no *.deb. Is dpkg-buildpackage supposed to create a .deb? The Diablo Maemo Reference seemed to indicate it should. Thanks.