[sylpheed:32747] Re: Error compiling 2.6beta2

[Ricardo Mones]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM, John Shane <jslists at mtwafrica.org> wrote:
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> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file
> `/var/tmp/tmp.UuuPD25942/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 8 package
> `sylpheed': `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package
> `gtk2' /var/tmp/tmp.UuuPD25942/dpkgbuild.log (END)

Looks like your dpkg-deb doesn't understand multiple line fields which
are used in sylpheed's debian control Build-Depends since some time
ago. The easiest is to join all these lines in one, though using a
more recent dpkg package would be preferred.

HTH,
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  Ricardo Mones
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