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dpkg- unknown control file error

Under what conditions will lintian throw error unknown-control-file? the package is being created with no warnings but lintian is giving that warning and the error empty-binary-package

My directory structure is 

debian

debian/DEBIAN

debian/DEBIAN/opt

debian/DEBIAN/opt/MyFile

debian/DEBIAN/control
Solution

  • You don't put the files in debian/DEBIAN - they should be one level up, in debian itself.