[Pkg-clamav-devel] new clamav for wheezy

Andreas Cadhalpun andreas.cadhalpun at googlemail.com
Wed Feb 4 20:03:50 UTC 2015


Hi,

On 04.02.2015 19:24, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2015-02-02 23:20:04 [+0100], Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
>> But it doesn't build here with pbuilder.
>> The problem is that the libmspack NEWS is empty and thus can't be added via
>> debian/patches, but it is required by the build system.
>
> Hmm. I built it with dpkg-buildpackage in the clean git tree. Thanks for
> fixing this. I think something like that for testing on my side should
> be added.
> Do you know by chance if this is something pbuilder related
> or something that would fail in general (for instance because patch can
> handle empty files)?

This is a limitation of the 3.0 quilt package format.

dpkg warns about this problem, when building the source package:
dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -S
[...]
dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file 
'libclamav/libmspack-0.5alpha/NEWS' will not be represented in diff
[...]

Best regards,
Andreas




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