dpkg-buildpackage: dpkg-source: no upstream tarball found

Question

I'm trying to untar the files and try to create deb package. This is for my testing purpose. My intention for this testing is, I would like to just provide a folder which contains data to install, and a script to be executed after installation.

https://download.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.4.4.tar.gz

I'm getting this error while building package. Any help would be appreciated

ubuntu@ip-10-232-39-177:/opt/uat/elasticsearch-1.4.4$ dpkg-buildpackage
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
dpkg-buildpackage: source package elasticsearch
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.4.4-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Ubuntu <ubuntu@unknown>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build elasticsearch-1.4.4
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: warning: (Use -d flag to override.)

After installing debhelper I'm getting this:

ubuntu@ip-10-232-39-177:/opt/uat/elasticsearch-1.4.4$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
dpkg-buildpackage: export CFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export CPPFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
dpkg-buildpackage: export CXXFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
dpkg-buildpackage: export FFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: export LDFLAGS from dpkg-buildflags (origin: vendor): -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro
dpkg-buildpackage: source package elasticsearch
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.4.4-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Ubuntu <ubuntu@unknown>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 dpkg-source --before-build elasticsearch-1.4.4
 fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh clean
   dh_testdir
   dh_auto_clean
   dh_clean
 dpkg-source -b elasticsearch-1.4.4
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../elasticsearch_1.4.4.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b elasticsearch-1.4.4 gave error exit status 255

Solution

I referred this blog and did the trick.

solution found from this forum

This command got fix my issue.

dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc

Comments

[Byte Commander]

I guess the important line here is Unmet build dependencies: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~). Try running sudo apt-get install debhelper and try again. This will install the debhelper package and its dependencies. Tell me if it worked, then I'll convert this into an answer, please.

[frlan]

I would suggest the libdevhelp-dev or similar is missing

[prem]

@Byte Commander after installed debhelper I tried, i'm facing this dpkg-source -b elasticsearch-1.4.4 dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../elasticsearch_1.4.4.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz} dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b elasticsearch-1.4.4 gave error exit status 255

[prem]

@ Byte Commander sure! I edited my question

[prem]

@Byte Commander I tried, still the same error exists.

[Byte Commander]

Did you rename it to elasticsearch_1.4.4.orig.tar too? I just noticed the additional .orig a few minutes ago myself. Not sure if it's the same file or a different one, it has to be at least named differently.

[Byte Commander]

Then I don't know. I'm sorry.