Blanking 'provides' field '#{provides}' because it's invalid

Error message

Blanking 'provides' field '#{provides}' because it's invalid

What it means

Error "Blanking 'provides' field '#{provides}' because it's invalid" thrown in jordansissel/fpm.

Source

Thrown at lib/fpm/package/deb.rb:1006

  end

  def fix_provides(provides)
    name_re = /^[^ \(]+/
    name = provides[name_re]
    if name =~ /[A-Z]/
      logger.warn("Downcasing provides '#{name}' because deb packages " \
                   " don't work so good with uppercase names")
      provides = provides.gsub(name_re) { |n| n.downcase }
    end

    if provides.include?("_")
      logger.warn("Replacing 'provides' underscores with dashes in '#{provides}' because " \
                   "debs don't like underscores")
      provides = provides.gsub("_", "-")
    end

    if provides.include?("(") and !provides.include?("(=")
      logger.warn("Blanking 'provides' field '#{provides}' because it's invalid")
      provides = ""
    end

    if m = provides.match(/^([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\s*=\s*(\d+.*$)/)
      logger.warn("Replacing 'provides' entry #{provides} with syntax 'name (= version)'")
      provides = "#{m[1]} (= #{m[2]})"
    end
    return provides.rstrip
  end

  def control_path(path=nil)
    @control_path ||= build_path("control")
    FileUtils.mkdir(@control_path) if !File.directory?(@control_path)

    if path.nil?
      return @control_path
    else
      return File.join(@control_path, path)

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/fpm/package/deb.rb:1006 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

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