[Pkg-mpd-maintainers] Bug#670470: mpd: fails to build .deb package with dpkg-deb -b

[Jonathan Lane]

Package: mpd
Version: 0.16.7-2
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)

Dear Maintainer,
I installed and ran mpd from the repositories, but decided I wanted SID
and wildmidi support, so I fetched the source with apt-get source and
recompiled it.  The source compiles, runs, and installs correctly via
"make install", and "checkinstall" creates a working .deb, but "dpkg-deb
-b ." in the working directory fails.  First, it complains about the
lack of a "DEBIAN" directory, but there is a "debian" directory, and
symlinking the two worked.  Second, and this is the meat of the problem,
it complains about errors in the DEBIAN/control file.  Running
"dpkg -I" on the .deb from the repositories showed normal output, so I think 
this is probably due tue a dpkg-deb format change.




-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash