[sylpheed:32752] Re: Error compiling 2.6beta2

[John Shane]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:19:02 +0100
"Ricardo Mones" <mones at debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:22 PM, John Shane
> <jslists at mtwafrica.org> wrote: [...]
> > 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,

Thanks Ricardo.  I was out of my depth trying it in the first place,
although a very interesting exercise. ;-)  If Ubuntu Intrepid hasn't
given me a recent enough dpkg package I think I'll just wait for a
regular release of the code.  John