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Recipe Error: No previous changelog to take the package name from

Asked by Jonathan Thomas

Hi! I have a recipe for OpenShot (https://code.launchpad.net/~openshot.code/+recipe/openshot-daily) that has been working great until I added a new changelog entry to my Debian changelog branch. Now, the recipe is failing to build, and the buildlog (https://launchpadlibrarian.net/80716714/buildlog.txt.gz) contains the following error:

"bzr: ERROR: No previous changelog to take the package name from, and --package not specified: debian/changelog didn't contain any parseable stanzas."

In my debian/changelog, here are the 2 most recent entries. The previous entry worked fine with my recipe. The newest entry seems to break the recipe. Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated! Thanks.

openshot (1.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Many bugs were fixed in this release. (Closes: #580381, #582289, #582297,
    #585400, #612847, #614177, #625920, #622238, #588182, #588580, #613449,
    #640898, #613481, #614174, #616574, #635392)

 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Sept 2011 01:06:00 +0100

openshot (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release to fix some bugs with version 1.3.0

 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Tue, 3 May 2011 01:45:00 +0100

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

This is possibly because your date syntax is invalid: it should say 'Sep' instead of 'Sept'. Have you considered using dch to create the new changelog entries?

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Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#2

Willian, thanks for the tip! That fixed my problem. I've never used "dch", but I just tried it out, and it works great.