Debian Package Issue: no orig.tar file found

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download 2.13 source archive and untar
2. Follow INSTALL.Debian instructions
3. dpkg-source -b shellinabox-2.13 fails with the following error:

dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no orig.tar 
file found

( full log here: http://pastie.org/3780434 )  

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
dpkg-buildpackage should build the package, but instead shows the error above.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
shellinabox 2.13 on Ubuntu 11.10

Workaround:

Here is what I did to get the package to build:

user@host:~/src/shellinabox-2.13$ dh_make --createorig
.. (followed by)
user@host:~/src/shellinabox-2.13$ dpkg-buildpackage

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by austinro...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2012 at 1:28

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You can build with the "-b" option to build just the binary package. 
http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/dpkg-buildpackage-b-dpkg-source-before-build-
help-198346481.html

Original comment by brycied...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2012 at 7:02

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Yup. That worked. I forgot about the "-b" option. Thanks for the input. We 
might want to update INSTALL.Debian to add the "-b" option. Took me a while to 
find the dh_make --createorig command. 

Original comment by austinro...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2012 at 3:14

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I also attached a compiled .deb file for 2.13 for anyone who wants it.

Original comment by austinro...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2012 at 3:18

Attachments:

• shellinabox_2.13-1_i386.deb

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I'll look into this.  You can get the precompiled package from the Debian 
archive.

Original comment by beewoo...@gmail.com on 23 Apr 2012 at 4:04

• Changed state: Accepted