make package (deb) broken - error in 'Version' field string 'unknown-dirty'

[skx7]

Hi ruediger

Already using couple of years your amazing OCR tool. I am setting up my new laptop right now and noticed that the compiled deb package is broken and refuses to be installed via dpkg. Info to reproduce:

OS: debian jessie/stable

configure: ok, no issues
make: ok, no issues
make package: built package 'vobsub2srt-unknown-dirty-Linux.deb' refuses to be installed via dpkg with following output:

dpkg -i vobsub2srt-unknown-dirty-Linux.deb

dpkg: error processing archive vobsub2srt-unknown-dirty-Linux.deb (--install): parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 2 package 'vobsub2srt': error in 'Version' field string 'unknown-dirty': version number does not start with digit

Could you please fix this and if possible upload a new release source code? It fails with release source code VobSub2SRT-1.0pre7 and it also fails with todays source code.

Thanks in advance, and your work is highly appreciated!

[ruediger]

I'm in the process of moving VobSub2SRT to autotools to make building Debian packages easier. My plan was to do a 1.0 release and then switch over. But I currently have little time. If you want to try the autotools version see the autotools branch and you should be able to build a Debian package from that.