[maemo-developers] Package building error with the armel target

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Petite Escalope wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to build a package for the armel target but it fails on this error :
> 
> dpkg-genchanges -b
> dpkg-genchanges: failure: cannot read files list file: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Everything is working with x86 
> 
> What's the problem?

In general dpkg-genchanges wants to see a file called debian/files to generate a .changes file for the eventual deb. Do you have a debian/files file?

Jeremiah