Failed in make install-deb

[knutze]

I've changed the standard shell in Debian from dash to bash, so maybe that's the reason?

sudo make install-deb
...
/bin/sh: command substitution: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
/bin/sh: command substitution: line 0: `sed -ne '/^vimpager (/{ s/^vimpager (\([^)-]*\).*/\1/p; q; }' debian/changelog)'
...
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../vimpager_2.06.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b vimpager gave error exit status 255
Makefile:216: recipe for target 'build-deb-build' failed
make: *** [build-deb-build] Error 255

It looked like there were unnecessary parentheses here, so I removed them and it went through. https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager/blob/0c91e9821c126eda1120f6ed8898bc8f236b3bec/Makefile#L216

[rkitover]

I've reproduced this with /bin/sh pointing to /bin/bash instead of /bin/dash.

Looking at this now.