[maemo-developers] Why "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us" returns error

[From: Mika Yrjölä]

On 9/20/07, hong zhang <henryzhang62 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Why "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us" returns
>
> dpkg-parsechangelog: error: cannot open
> debian/changelog to find format: No such file or
> directory
> dpkg-buildpackage: unable to determine source package
> is

Hi,

are you sure you were running the command in the right directory, i.e.
in the unpacked source directory, which also contains the debian
subdir? In any case, the script(s) fail, because they can't find (or
are otherwise unable to read the contents of) the package changelog.