Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:28:41PM +0200, Klaudiusz Staniek wrote:

Hi when I try to build the deb package I'm getting the error message: cp: cannot create regular file `debian/tmp/etc/': No such file or directory

What is wrong? See below output: Cheers, Klaudiusz

tap2deb --unsigned -m "Klaudiusz Staniek <kstaniek@gmail.com>" --type=python -t xplhub.tac dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value: dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2 dpkg-buildpackage: source package twisted-xplhub dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.0 dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Klaudiusz Staniek <kstaniek@gmail.com> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture armel fakeroot debian/rules clean dh_testdir dh_testroot rm -f build-stamp install-stamp dh_clean dpkg-source -b twisted-xplhub-1.0 dpkg-source: info: using source format `1.0' dpkg-source: info: building twisted-xplhub in twisted-xplhub_1.0.tar.gz dpkg-source: info: building twisted-xplhub in twisted-xplhub_1.0.dsc debian/rules build dh_testdir touch build-stamp fakeroot debian/rules binary dh_testdir dh_testroot dh_clean -k dh_installdirs # Add here commands to install the package into debian/tmp. cp xplhub.tac debian/tmp/etc/

In a `rules` file it is usually just as simple as: mkdir -p debian/tmp/etc OTOH, there is the debian/<package>.dirs file. Which I believe is preferred in newer versions of debhelper (?) Oh, and this sounds like a bug - could you file an issue at http://twistedmatrix.com ? Thanks, -E