'How to solve "the package is of bad quality" ubuntu software center
I have the following deb-control:
$cat control
Package: Deb-Package
Version: 2016-Jan-24
Architecture: all
Installed-Size: 252000
Homepage: http://www.google.com
Maintainer: My Name <[email protected]>
Description: my deb package
and after create my deb package with the command:
dpkg-deb --build <folder>
and then when I try to install it on the ubuntu software center I always get the following notification: "The package is of bad quality ".
How to avoid this dialog ?
Solution 1:[1]
At least your package name is invalid. Quoting the manual at https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html:
Package names (both source and binary, see Package, Section 5.6.7) must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at least two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric character.
Therefore Deb-Package is not allowable, as it contains 2 uppercase characters.
Technically your version string is allowed, but you should keep in mind that it represents Debian revision 24 of version 2016-Jan of your package. You would do better following conventions there too.
Apart from these 2 your control file seems right, but more might be wrong in the package contents itself. In general, Lintian should return no errors, although many small violations are permissible - I have several packages in a private apt repository with errors although they work fine. I do suspect the package name violation is fatal though.
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