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By running debuild, I find the following warnings:

# debuild 
debuild: warning:     debian/changelog(l1): badly formatted heading line
LINE: my_package (0.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

Where is my mistake?

Here is my debian/changelog

my_package (0.3-1) trusty; urgency=low

    * First release:

-- My Name  <mymail@gmail.com> Tue Oct 11 21:22:15 CEST 2016
user123456
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It looks like this is due to the underscore in the package name itself (my_package). Debian package names can consist of only lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.)

There is a really detailed blog post on blog.packagecloud.io that talks about package names and versions.

http://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2015/07/14/using-dh-make-to-prepare-debian-packages/#understanding-the-package-name-and-version

And another post on using debuild to build debian packages:

http://blog.packagecloud.io/debian/debuild/packaging/2015/06/08/buildling-deb-packages-with-debuild/

Armando Canals
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