Packaging

[marshallbanana]

Okay, so I'm trying to follow the log of the packaging tutorial from Kubuntu Tutorials Day. I am up to the final step of running debuild, but get the following error:

marshallbanana@MPU:~/kraft-0.20/debian$ debuild
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp
[ ! -f Makefile ] || /usr/bin/make distclean
dh_clean
 dpkg-source -b kraft-0.20
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in general section of control info file
dpkg-source: building kraft using existing kraft_0.20.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: failure: unable to create `kraft_0.20.orig.tar.gz.tmp-nest': File exists
debuild: fatal error at line 1247:
dpkg-source -b kraft-0.20 failed

the contents of /debian/control are:

Source: kraft
Section: kde
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: R <m@g>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), kdelibs4-dev, libqt3-mt-dev, docbook2x
Standards-Version: 3.7.3
Homepage: http://kraft.sourceforge.net

Package: kraft
Architecture: any
Depends: ${shlibsepends}
Description: krafty app

Anyone got any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

Note: I have intentionally mangled XSBC-Original-Maintainer: R <m@g> line

[marshallbanana]

Re: Packaging

Oop, just solved it by deleting the file kraft_0.20.orig.tar.gz.tmp-nest which was created by an earlier failed attempt to run debuild. That was fairly stupid.

At this point the process does create the deb file but I also get the error

<snipped>
warning, `debian/kraft/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field `Original-Mai ntainer'
dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
dpkg-deb: building package `kraft' in `../kraft_0.20-0ubuntu1_i386.deb'.
dpkg-genchanges
dpkg-genchanges: not including original source code in upload
dpkg-buildpackage (debuild emulation): binary and diff upload (original source N OT included)
Now signing changes and any dsc files...
Could not find a signing program (pgp or gpg)!
debuild: fatal error at line 1174:
running debsign failed

I'm guessing I just have to apt-get a package. But which? Searching adept for pgp or gpg returns quite a number, many of which appear to be just frontend guis.
The deb does seem to work, but would rather create one without an error during the process.

[ubiq]

Re: Packaging

sudo apt-get install gpg

Then you will need to set up a key pair, and add a few variables to your .bashrc file so that debsign will find the key. Alternatives are:

debuild -k<your-key-id>

debuild -us -uc

The second one will just skip the gpg signing.

The additions to your .bashrc file should look like this:

export DEBFULLNAME='Your Full Name'
export DEBEMAIL='Your@email.here'

But I had to add:

export DEBSIGN_KEYID=your-key-id

To make it work.

Good luck!