Using checkinstall in svn build

[Foxy]

I mean the following. I run ./autogen.sh, then make and then 
checkinstall to build and install a deb. So I've  got this in the process:

> *****************************************
> **** Debian package creation selected ***
> *****************************************
>
> *** Warning: The package name "         xfce4-toys" contains upper case
> *** Warning: letters. dpkg might not like that so I changed
> *** Warning: them to lower case.
>
> This package will be built according to these values:
>
> 0 -  Maintainer: [ root at neclaptop ]
> 1 -  Summary: [         Various tools for xfce4. ]
> 2 -  Name:    [ xfce4-toys ]
> 3 -  Version: [         4.3.0 ]
> 4 -  Release: [         1 ]
> 5 -  License: [ GPL ]
> 6 -  Group:   [                 User Interface/Desktops ]
> 7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
> 8 -  Source location: [ xfce4-toys ]
> 9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
> 10 - Requires: [        xfce4-panel >= 4.2.0 ]

As you can see, there are spaces before 3-  Version, 4 - Release and 10 
- Requires. Also there are >= after dependencies. Well, I can manually 
ge rid of space in version and release, but it is not possible with 
Requires. If I proceed, the building of deb failed with the following 
message:

> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file 
> `/var/tmp/aeWIkNLLCOrDiCZJPOBf/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 8 
> package `xfce4-toys':
>  `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `xfce4-panel'





Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

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>On 9/27/2005 3:28 PM, Foxy wrote:
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>>I tried to build a xfce from svn using checkinstall instead of make 
>>install. It proved a real problem. The thing is that checkinstall does 
>>not like spaces in version and release numbers, signs like > or = and 
>>spaces in dependencies. I wanted to use a script which I found at 
>>http://www.q-collective.org/xfce/ and modified. Well I ended up 
>>installing a snapshot and for the components which are not in snapshot I 
>>edited .spec file every time.
>>
>>I wonder if it is possible to make it easier to install xfce-svn using 
>>checkinstall?
>>    
>>
>
>Not sure what you mean.  We don't have spaces in any of our
>version/release numbers.  I'm not sure how checkinstall looks at
>dependencies, but we just use the standard method (pkgconfig) to check
>for them.  The .spec files are not necessarily up-to-date.
>
>Patches to achieve what you want are always welcome, of course ^_~.
>
>	-b
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