Re: Bitpim on Debian Etch/stable, also Motorola e815

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:57:37PM -0400, Derrick Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:40:12PM -0400, I wrote:
> ...
> libtiff3 is old and a package is no longer available.  Your problem is
> that build of bitpim depends on it.  Fortunately, at least in my
> experience, libtiff3 and libtiff4 are link compatible (or at least
> close enough not to crash).  I worked around it by creating a symlink:
>     # ln -s /usr/lib/libtiff.so.4 /usr/lib/libtiff.so.3

I might do that, but it's not a clean solution...

> The bitpim (1.0.3.dfsg.1-1) and wxPython packages on Debian testing
> don't have this issue.

I just tried installing that version, it has dependency issues too.
Going into dependency hell and upgrading package after package would
be a last resort.  As of right now, I would prefer to just make a
package locally (of 1.0.5 maybe) from the svn tree that I already have
locally, but

$ debuild --linda -us -uc

results in the following:

parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted trailer line, at file
debian/changelog line 5
debuild: fatal error at line 617:
problem executing dpkg-parsechangelog | grep:


The debian/changelog file is:

------------------- contents of debian/changelog -----------------
bitpim (%%VERSION%%) unstable; urgency=low

* Debian package build.

-- %%PUBLISHER%%  %%BUILDDATETIME%%
--------------- end of contents of debian/changelog --------------

As this file came straight from the svn repository, what is going
on here?  How do I fix it?

Should I be building a local package a different way?  Did I miss
a step?  I've been reading on package building, but I admit I'm
new at this.

Or do I have a fundamental issue with versions of something that
is in Etch that just won't work with bitpim 1.0.5?

> -Derrick

And thanks for replying to the original post.

Augustine


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