[18:18] <tertitten> Can someone help me with what I'm sure is a simple problem? I'm trying to build something on my ppa, it's just some copy "this to there" simple stuff really, but I keep getting this error: dh_usrlocal: error: debian/xfce4-docklike-plugin/usr/local/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/bg/xfce4-docklike-plugin.mo is not a directory
[18:19] <tertitten> my compat is 13 in my control file
[18:20] <tertitten> is it because im copying into a usr directory?
[18:24] <cjwatson> The standard packaging toolchain deliberately takes steps to prevent you installing stuff in /usr/local, since .debs aren't supposed to install there.
[18:25] <cjwatson> If you know what you're doing enough to do it anyway, then there are ways to override individual debhelper commands ... but it would probably be better to change the package to install in a standard location for .debs.
[18:27] <cjwatson> But your package claims to be GPL and yet appears to have no source code.  If you're the licensor as it says, then of course you can't be violating your own copyright; but it's probably against Launchpad's terms of service.
[18:27] <cjwatson> And it's not clear that Launchpad can legally redistribute it.
[18:28] <cjwatson> (Also, too late now, but you probably meant to ask in #launchpad.  This channel is meant to be for development of Launchpad itself)
[18:29] <tertitten> allright, I see, humm, so installing to something like /usr/lib or somewhere would probably be better then
[18:29] <tertitten> oh, thanks :)
[18:29] <cjwatson> The only reason I noticed the lack of source code is that normally dh_auto_configure would do "./configure --prefix=/usr" or similar for you.
[18:30] <cjwatson> So I wondered why that wasn't happening.
[18:30] <tertitten> aha :)
[18:30] <tertitten> thanks for your help anyway :)
[18:31] <cjwatson> (This is in https://launchpad.net/~tertitten/+archive/ubuntu/focuspoint-linux/+packages if anyone wants to check whether they're addressing the probable non-redistributability.)