Problem building deb on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)

[Patrik Lermon]

Hi all.

I'm trying to build gnucash from svn repository, following the guide
on the Wiki, but it fails in two places.

I run ./configure without problems. But when I run checkinstall,
something fails.

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$ checkinstall --default --install=no

checkinstall 1.6.1, Copyright 2002 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran
           This software is released under the GNU GPL.



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**** Debian package creation selected ***
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This package will be built according to these values:

0 -  Maintainer: [ patrik at conference ]
1 -  Summary: [ Package created with checkinstall 1.6.1 ]
2 -  Name:    [ gnucash ]
3 -  Version: [ 2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0
2.2.0 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ i386 ]
8 -  Source location: [ gnucash ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
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As you can see the "3 -  Version"-section is wrong, it contains the
gnucash version over and over again with newlines. The checkinstall
will fail with this error:

dpkg-deb: parse error, in file
`/var/tmp/lYOpfkOrdjGJBSojPNrec/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 8
package `gnucash':
 newline in field name `2.2.0'

However, this problem can be solved by running checkinstall with the
--pkgversion flag set.

Problem number two occurs when running:
$ checkinstall --default --install=no --pkgversion=2.2.0

This will succeed and create a .deb file.
The .deb file however seems to have some errors, first it is 6MB large:
$ ls -alh gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 patrik patrik 6.0M 2007-08-16 15:10 gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb

The default 2.0.2 Ubuntu built gnucash is about 2MB.
$ ls -alh /var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash_2.0.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2,1M 2007-01-29 00:03
/var/cache/apt/archives/gnucash_2.0.2-3ubuntu1_i386.deb

When I try to install the image, I get the following error:
$ sudo dpkg -i gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 170254 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gnucash 2.0.2-3ubuntu1 (using gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gnucash ...
dpkg: error processing gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/ld', which is also in package binutils
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnucash_2.2.0-1_i386.deb

It seems like way to much data was copied into the image, I guess ld
doesn't belong there.

Anyone got a solution to either or both of these problem may be?

Best regards,
  Patrik Lermon