Please merge util-vserver 0.30.216~r2750-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

0.30.215-4ubuntu1 just introduces one Ubuntu-local change:
  * Add -Wl,-z,norelro to LDFLAGS, fix FTBFS while stripping binaries on
    i386 and amd64 architectures (Ubuntu toolchain issue only).

You don't mention it at all, but only Debian changes that were made. Why can this one be dropped?

The Debian package fails to build:

dh_installdebconf -n
dh_installinit -r
dh_installman
dh_link
dh_strip
dh_strip: command returned error code 11
make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: failure: fakeroot debian/rules binary gave error exit status 2
pbuilder: Failed autobuilding of package
 -> Aborting with an error
 -> unmounting dev/pts filesystem
 -> unmounting proc filesystem

Okay daniel:

here is the diff

Your debian/changelog entry is not formatted correctly. Retained Ubuntu changes should be indented 2 spaces farther to the right, and they should be prefixed with a '-' instead of a '*'. A properly formated changelog entry would look like this:

util-vserver (0.30.216~r2750-3ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes: (LP: #258516)
    - Add -Wl,-z,norelro to LDFLAGS, fix FTBFS while stripping binaries on
      i386 and amd64 architectures (Ubuntu toolchain issue only).

 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:23:51 +0530

Okay! corrected.

yesterday I got a few lessons.

You are very close Bhavani. You just forgot the (LP: #258516) part in your changelog entry. That part is very important, because it will cause this bug report to be marked as 'Fix Released' when the merged package is uploaded to the repositories.

Mangled debian/changelog to include missing LP notation and uploaded.

This bug was fixed in the package util-vserver - 0.30.216~r2750-3ubuntu1

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util-vserver (0.30.216~r2750-3ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #258516), remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - Add -Wl,-z,norelro to LDFLAGS, fix FTBFS while stripping binaries
      on i386 and amd64 architectures (Ubuntu toolchain issue only).

util-vserver (0.30.216~r2750-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Fix incorrect removal of rsyslog in inittpost resulting
    in guests not starting properly, due to lenny release goal
    of switching to rsyslog (Closes: #491072)

util-vserver (0.30.216~r2750-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Make configure script executable for buildds (Closes: #492093)

util-vserver (0.30.216~r2750-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upgrade to svn revision 2750
  * Remove unneeded 20newapi.dpatch
  * Updated standards version to 3.8.0 (no changes)

 -- Bhavani Shankar <email address hidden> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:32:13 +0530