I set CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT and CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER in my main CMakeListst.txt. cmake itself runs an the created CPackConfig.cmake and CPackSourceConfig.cmake both contain the variables set.
CPack still exits with
CPack: Create package using DEB CPack: Install projects CPack: - Run preinstall target for: CPack: - Install project: CPack: Create package CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/CPackDeb.cmake:274 (MESSAGE): CPackDeb: Debian package requires a maintainer for a package, set CPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT or CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER
Does anybody have an idea what is wrong or how to find out what is going on here?
Hmmmm. "cpack --help" does not appear to document its command line options fully...
If you use "cpack -V", you'll get more verbose output. If you use "cpack --debug", you'll get a ton of output that you can wade through to try to find hints about what went wrong.
Give those a try, and see if any of the output helps you. If not, perhaps it will at least yield some more information you can post in a question edit to try to track down what the problem is.
What version of cpack are you using?