[Distutils] bdist_deb in stdeb

Andrew Straw strawman at astraw.com
Tue Sep 29 18:05:34 CEST 2009


Olof Bjarnason wrote:
> OK I came a little further apt-get:ing debhelper and python-all-dev,
> then issuing
>
> sudo python -c "import stdeb; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_deb
>
> .. but it ended with this:
> dpkg-deb - fel: (upstream) version ("dev") innehåller inga siffror
>   

The English translation of this is:

dpkg-deb - error: (upstream) version (`dev') doesn't contain any digits

I think that's your problem -- make the version specified in your
setup.py a legal Debian version, and it should work.

-Andrew


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