Hi all,

I'm trying to package an application and I'm encountering a problem with the MADDE packaged with the latest Nokia Qt SDK on Linux 64bits:

[Yann@localhost wagic-build-maemo]$ mad dh_builddeb
tarlisted: Error in input line 308: strange content, type information error
tarlisted -i debian/wagic.tarlist -o data.tar failed
dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512

Looking at my tarlist file, the line 308 contains the following stuff:
644 root root . usr/share/wagic/Res/test/enchanted evening.txt debian/wagic/usr/share/wagic/Res/test/enchanted evening.txt

If I remove it from the tarlist file, I'm getting the following error:

[Yann@localhost wagic-build-maemo]$ mad dh_builddeb
tarlisted: Error in input line 403: strange content, type information error
tarlisted -i debian/wagic.tarlist -o data.tar failed
dh_builddeb: command returned error code 512

This time, the line 403 contains the following stuff:
644 root root . usr/share/wagic/Res/test/safe passage.txt debian/wagic/usr/share/wagic/Res/test/safe passage.txt

None of the lines between the problematic ones contain any empty space. So, a few questions :
- Is that a known bug ?
- Am I supposed to be able to deploy files/directories with empty space with MADDE ?
- Any possible workaround ?

Thanks for your help,

Yann.

Googling around, I looked at the code of tarlisted here and noticed it seems to expect "\\\ " instead of " " in files with spaces ...

So, my guess is that dh_fixperms code does not generate a tarlist file with the correct file format.

good point. the backslashes in tarlist file would fix the problem.

(not that we are supporting whitespaces in installation paths, but
at least we can work best effort-basis)

I see how dh_fixperms is to be fixed...

get

http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-dev...ls/dh_fixperms


then enter

'mad which dh_fixperms'

and replace that one with the one downloaded from gitorious above.

amd chmod 755 the replaced file

Thanks, it seems to work great !