On Debian, the package cannot be built:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
...
dpkg-source: error: can't build with source format '3.0 (quilt)': no upstream tarball found at ../texstudio_2.8.8.orig.tar.{bz2,gz,lzma,xz}
dpkg-buildpackage: error: dpkg-source -b texstudio-hg gave error exit status 255
Attached please find a patch to solve this issue.
merged
With the new debhelper in Debian Stretch, dpkg-genchanges is more strict to the format of the changelog and the package does not build anymore. Attached please find a patch to fix the changelog format.
dpkg-deb: Paket »texstudio« wird in »../texstudio_2.9.5_amd64.deb« gebaut.
dpkg-genchanges >../texstudio_2.9.5_amd64.changes
dpkg-genchanges: Warnung: debian/changelog(l13): Zeile nicht erkannt
LINE: texstudio (2.9.2) natty; urgency=low
dpkg-genchanges: Warnung: debian/changelog(l19): Zeile nicht erkannt
LINE: texstudio (2.9.0) natty; urgency=low
dpkg-genchanges: Warnung: debian/changelog(l25): Zeile nicht erkannt
LINE: texstudio (2.8.8) natty; urgency=low
dpkg-genchanges: Warnung: debian/changelog(l31): Zeile nicht erkannt
LINE: * 2.8.6 new release
Error parsing time at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Time/Piece.pm line
469, <$filehandle> line 33.
dpkg-buildpackage: Fehler: Fehler-Exitstatus von dpkg-genchanges war 25
Thanks. Patch applied.