it don't see 822-date on amd64

[yngd]

ubuntu 8.04 amd64.
tried 3.9.4
installed dpkg-dev for sure

it just fails saying "cannot find 822-date"

(debcreator:7022): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/yngd/.recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Error reading file '/home/yngd/.recently-used.xbel': Is a directory.

(debcreator:7022): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_bookmark_file_get_size: assertion `bookmark != NULL' failed
cut: fields and positions are numbered from 1
Try `cut --help' for more information.
Unable to find 822-date program!

[Jon Arnold (jonarnoldsemail)]

I'm getting this error too...

jon$ 822-date
822-date: warning: This program is deprecated. Please use 'date -R' instead.
Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:28:07 -0400
jon$ date -R
Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:28:18 -0400

[Araz (araz-alipour)]

you should make little changes in /usr/bin/debcreator_dhmake
script is written badly in these lines:
our $UTIL_BZIP2=`whereis -b bzip2 | cut -d" " -f2`;
our $UTIL_GZIP=`whereis -b gzip | cut -d" " -f2`;
our $UTIL_DATE=`whereis -b 822-date | cut -d" " -f2,`;

space is needed between -d, " " and f, 2 and you can use date -R instead of 822-date
replacing those lines with these would solve your problem:

our $UTIL_BZIP2=`whereis -b bzip2 | cut -d " " -f 2`;
our $UTIL_GZIP=`whereis -b gzip | cut -d " " -f 2`;
our $UTIL_DATE=`whereis -b date -R | cut -d " " -f 2,`;

[Araz (araz-alipour)]

another thing needs change:
remove that comma in the end of this line:
our $UTIL_DATE=`whereis -b date -R | cut -d " " -f 2,`;

=> our $UTIL_DATE=`whereis -b date -R | cut -d " " -f 2`;

file updated

[Araz (araz-alipour)]

it still isn't fixed. I'll remove the file and try to see if I can fix it.

[Araz (araz-alipour)]

seems like this one solved the problem...
our $UTIL_DATE=`whereis -b date | cut -d " " -f 2`.` -R`
but it still fails with no more error... is there anyway to see something like debug info?

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Hi,

I've fixed it in my branch: https://code.launchpad.net/~vperetokin/debcreator/dc+

If you're proficient with compiling, give it a try and let me now how it works out. Make sure to install the "atool" and "dh-make" packages though.