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while packaging I encountered following error

dh_builddeb
dpkg-deb: building package `remotedevicecontroller' in `../remotedevicecontroller_1.0-1_i386.deb'.
 dpkg-source -b remotedevicecontroller-1.0
dpkg-source: info: using source format `3.0 (quilt)'
dpkg-source: error: unwanted binary file: debian/remotedevicecontroller/usr/share/doc/remotedevicecontroller/changelog.Debian.gz
dpkg-source: error: detected 1 unwanted binary file (add it in debian/source/include-binaries to allow its inclusion).
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b remotedevicecontroller-1.0 gave error exit status 29

why is the file being created by debian-helper and why is it again asking to include it in some other directory?

Necktwi
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Seems that the build wasn't clean, or you included more options that weren't by default. The changelog.Debian.gz is a gzip compressed list of the change made to the source package done by the Debian maintainer. You can either delete/prevent the generation of the file, or add the path to debian/source/include-binaries:

$ cat debian/source/include-binaries
[...]
/usr/share/doc/remotedevicecontroller/changelog.Debian.gz
[...]
Braiam
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