Using checkinstall in svn build

[Joe Klemmer]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 00:27 +0100, Foxy wrote:

> 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:

	It's picking this up from the spec file.  Just delete it before running
checkinstall and you should be fine.

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