[maemo-developers] dpkg: serious warning: files list .......

[From: Guillem Jover]

On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 21:18:34 +0100, ext Visti Andresen wrote:
> Hi, I succeeded in building my first .deb package.
> I created the control file and friends manually, I looked at the
> source of maemopadplus for "inspiration".

I still wonder why the tutorials lead people to build packages by
hand...

> Using the "Application manager" the package installs and uninstalls
> without any problems.

You probably have those messages as well if you ask for the output
log.

> But when I use dpkg I get the following message:
> 
> dpkg -i n770-fire_0.1_armel.deb 
> Selecting previously deselected package n770-fire.
> (Reading database ... 
> dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package `armel' missing,
> assuming package has no files currently installed.
> 12900 files and directories currently installed.)

This is saying that there's an installed package called «armel» which
does not have the corresponding «/var/lib/dpkg/info/armel.list» file.
So you got such package installed somehow and dpkg is complaining.

> Unpacking n770-fire (from n770-fire_0.1_armel.deb) ...
> Setting up n770-fire (0.1) ...

And the warning message should be unrelated to this package.

> "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" creates a debian/files file containing:
> n770-fire_1.2_armel.deb user/games optional

This file does not have anything to do with the one dpkg is
complaining about, the former being binary package related the latter
being source package related.

regards,
guillem