I need to build a DEB package from mainly Node.js Javascript files, but it should include some binary files as well. They are listed inside debian/source/include-binaries. Otherwise I get the error message

dpkg-source: error: unrepresentable changes to source

The command in question is:

bzr builddeb -- -us -uc

After adding the file include-binaries, when running bzr builddeb -- -us -uc again, now I get a different error: It says

dpkg-source: error: aborting due to unexpected upstream changes, see /tmp/mailadmin_0.0-1.diff.n6m5_6

I have no idea how to get rid of this.

In the next line of output it tells me

dpkg-source: info: you can integrate the local changes with dpkg-source --commit

But if I run this command in the build area of my package, it gives me the unrepresentable changes to source error message again, even though debian/source/include-binaries is present in the build area as well.

I am missing the way out of this...

I tried deleting all files that are produced by the build process, still no success.

Further details:

The target directory is /opt/mailadmin. Since this directory is unusual, I listed it in the file debian/mailadmin.install (which contains one line:)

opt/mailadmin opt/

The bzr builddeb process uses this file as expected.