Comment 4 for bug 188962

Daniel Holbach wrote, On 02/06/08 11:14:
> debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink is a CDBS bug I believe and only a
> warning, so nothing to worry about. Pbuilder shouldn't fail building it
> because of that.
>
> If all fails, try to upload to PPA:
> http://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart - your page is fine too.
>
> Review:
> - try to make it non-native (have a sun-javadb_10.3.2.1.orig.tar.gz + .diff.gz (with all the debian/ bits) and .dsc)
> - "The deprecated frameworks software is not included" (in debian/README.Debian) could be a bit more verbose. Also adding that information to debian/copyright would not hurt.
> - Make it Standards-Version 3.7.3 to comply with the newest policy version.
> - usr/share/javadb/demo/programs/localcal/lib/ seems to be an empty directory
> - please adhere to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebianMaintainerField

Stepping into a mess getting confused when trying to make it non-native:

1. CDBS tarball would like a tarball in sun-javadb-10.3.2.1, without it
    I am not suprised to get stuff like

 dh_install -psun-javadb-client build-tree/javadb/lib/derbyclient.jar usr/share/javadb/lib
 cp: cannot stat `./build-tree/javadb/lib/derbyclient.jar': No such file or directory

2. With a copy of sun-javadb_10.3.2.1.orig.tar.gz in sun-javadb-10.3.2.1,
    I get

 dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Homepage' in input data in general section of control info file
 dpkg-source: warning: Version number suggests Ubuntu changes, but there is no XSBC-Original-Maintainer field
 dpkg-source: building sun-javadb using existing sun-javadb_10.3.2.1.orig.tar.gz
 dpkg-source: building sun-javadb in sun-javadb_10.3.2.1-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
 dpkg-source: warning: newly created empty file 'sun-javadb_10.3.2.1.orig.tar.gz.cdbs-config_list' will not be represented in diff

    and then:

 dpkg-source: cannot represent change to sun-javadb_10.3.2.1.orig.tar.gz: binary file contents changed
 dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file CHANGES.html
 dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file RELEASE-NOTES.html
 ...
 dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file docs/pdf/ref/refderby.pdf
 dpkg-source: building sun-javadb in sun-javadb_10.3.2.1-0ubuntu1.dsc
 dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source

    booom!

With pbuilder I run into this one, regardless:

 dh_install -psun-javadb-client build-tree/javadb/lib/derbyclient.jar usr/share/javadb/lib
 cp: cannot stat `./build-tree/javadb/lib/derbyclient.jar': No such file or directory

with orig.tar.gz, dsc and diff.gz in place.

There must be some fundamental I have missed, - tried googling, and all FAQs and guides I know of...

Any pointers?

Thanks,
Lars