Error in debian/changelog preventing .deb building

[pythonian4000]

Trying to build a .deb file on Xubuntu (after having divined out the required -dev packages that needed to be installed), I encountered the following during the dpkg-buildpackage -B -nc step of make deb:

parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l5): badly formatted trailer line LINE: -- Dan Fruehauf <malkodan@gmail.com> Sat, Jul 06 2013 00:00:00 +1000 parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l7): found start of entry where expected more change data or trailer LINE: network-manager-ssh (0.9.0-0ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low parsechangelog/debian: warning: debian/changelog(l7): found eof where expected more change data or trailer dpkg-buildpackage: source package network-manager-ssh dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.9.1-0ubuntu2 dpkg-buildpackage: error: unable to determine source changed by make: *** [deb] Error 255

To fix this, I reversed the day and month on line 5, i.e.
-- Dan Fruehauf <malkodan@gmail.com> Sat, 06 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +1000

Looking at the rest of the changelog, it appears that your dates switch from DAY MONTH to MONTH DAY partway through. I only had to change the latest entry to get the build to progress.

[pythonian4000]

I do get warnings about the other lines being incorrect (or at least, a specific warning about the next incorrect line) later on in building. Swapping all lines to DAY MONTH stops the warnings.

[danfruehauf]

How slack of me. Fixed, let me know if it doesn't work.

[danfruehauf]

9417272

Just tested it on ubuntu 12.10 and it looks alright. Hope it works for you and please let me know if it doesn't...

[pythonian4000]

I deleted my local repo (make clean doesn't seem to clear out everything) and cloned again; the .deb files now build with your changes (I do get an error, but it's about being unable to sign files because your key is missing - the files themselves are still created).

[danfruehauf]

Jack, thanks for putting time into that. Again, I apologize for things not building out of the box on Ubuntu/Debian as promised - but as you can see I'm trying my best.

About not signing the file - well, I'd like at some point to have someone maintain a package on Debian and Ubuntu for NetworkManager-ssh, I think everybody would benefit from it. However since I'm not using Debian/Ubuntu on a daily basis I think it'd be rather wrong if I do it.

Please however provide me with more feedback, I'm very attentive and still committing code, adding features all the time.

[pythonian4000]

No problem!

Re: signing - perhaps it is possible to disable signing within the "make deb" somewhere so that it builds unsigned files by default? And then have a different make option for making a release version.

Re: more feedback, I'll keep posting issues as I have them :) I had my own Bash scripts doing something similar using badvpn-tun2socks and ssh -D, but this would be a much simpler and robust way to run things (assuming I get it working!)