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I am running the debuild in order to generate the <source.changes> file to later upload my package using 

dput ppa:myusername/mypackagename <source.changes>

as briefly mentioned here.

I recieve the following warning and errors:

$ debuild
This package has a Debian revision number but there does not seem to be an appropriate original tar file or .orig directory in the parent directory;
(expected one of screen-generator_0.3.orig.tar.gz, screen-generator_0.3.orig.tar.bz2,
screen-generator_0.3.orig.tar.lzma,  screen-generator_0.3.orig.tar.xz or screen-generator.orig)
continue anyway? (y/n) y 
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -D -us -uc
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root
dpkg-buildpackage: source package screen-generator
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.3-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source distribution UNRELEASED
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by root <root@computer>
 dpkg-source --before-build screen-generator
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Package' in input data in general section of control info file
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Version' in input data in general section of control info file
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Architecture' in input data in general section of control info file
dpkg-source: warning: unknown information field 'Description' in input data in general section of control info file
dpkg-source: error: screen-generator/debian/control doesn't list any binary package
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source --before-build screen-generator gave error exit status 255

What do I need to do to avoid this error or generate a <source.changes> file?

My package is called screen-generator and my debian/control file contains the following

Source: screen-generator
Package: screen-generator
Version: 0.3
Standard-Version: 0.3
Section: base
Maintainer: my_mail@gmail.com <my_mail@gmail.com>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Name <my_mail@gmail.com>
Priority: optional
Architecture: any
Vcs-Bzr: lp:ubuntu/screen-generator
Homepage: https://github.com/boddhissattva/screen-generator
Vcs-Git: https://github.com/boddhissattva/screen-generator
Description: 
 screen-generator generates screen configuration files and launches screen by providing a chain of commands
user123456
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  • What is in your mypackagename/debian/control? – Pilot6 Oct 07 '16 at 14:47
  • Thread updated with control file. – user123456 Oct 07 '16 at 15:08
  • It looks OK. Weird. – Pilot6 Oct 07 '16 at 15:10
  • Did you create the file manually? Weird looking is Standard-Version, should be Standards-Version. – Pilot6 Oct 07 '16 at 15:11
  • I still have the same error if I add the missing tar.gz file – user123456 Oct 07 '16 at 16:02
  • Had the same issue. If the debian dir is part of the source tree, set the contents of source/version to 3.0 (native) (not quilt) and ensure the version number (as per changelog) does not contain a dash (0.3 or 0.3.1 is OK, but not 0.3-1): otherwise the toolchain will assume that project maintainer and Debian maintainer are two different people (or groups of people), and insist on what it thinks it the proper workflow: tarball with upstream source, debian files (and patches, if any) kept separately. – user149408 May 06 '20 at 22:41

2 Answers2

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You must reorder you control file in this way:

Source: screen-generator
Section: base
Priority: optional
Maintainer: my_mail@gmail.com <my_mail@gmail.com>

Package: screen-generator
Version: 0.3
Standards-Version: 0.3
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Name <my_mail@gmail.com>
Architecture: any
Vcs-Bzr: lp:ubuntu/screen-generator
Homepage: https://github.com/boddhissattva/screen-generator
Vcs-Git: https://github.com/boddhissattva/screen-generator
Description: short description
 screen-generator generates screen configuration files and launches screen by providing a chain of commands

Note the blank line between Maintainer and Package, this is really needed. Once you do that re-run debuild and your issue with "unknown information field" must be resolved.

kato2
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As described in the debian package documentation, the debian/control has to have two paragraphs:

  1. The general paragraph (the first one, for the source package)
  2. The fields in the binary package paragraphs
user123456
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  • Would you flag your answer as the accepted one, because this what works for you. Packaging is really hard when trying to learn it alone :) . – user.dz Nov 20 '16 at 21:49