Comment 1 for bug 317255

While building latest orca sources (2.17.x).

/docs/pydoc/Makefile.am
./docs/pydoc/Makefile
./docs/Makefile.am
./docs/Makefile
./AUTHORS
./ChangeLog
grep: /var/tmp/tmp.XXXXNP4NpP/newfile: No such file or directory

Copying files to the temporary directory...OK

Stripping ELF binaries and libraries...OK

Compressing man pages...OK

Building file list...OK

Building Debian package... FAILED!

*** Failed to build the package

Do you want to see the log file? [y]:

dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `/var/tmp/tmp.XXXXNP4NpP/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 8 package `orca':
 `Depends' field, syntax error after reference to package `python'

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
Codename: karmic
iise@karmic-Kola:~/packages/orca/src/orca$

$ apt-cache policy checkinstall
checkinstall:
  Installed: 1.6.1-8
  Candidate: 1.6.1-8
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.1-8 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status