Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch checkinstall generates debian/control files with empty fields. dpkg accepts these packages OK, but apt and friends choke on them. This means that although these packages can be installed manually, they cannot be added to a repository. The <a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html"; >spec</a> isn't clear if empty fields are allowed or not.
if line 2566 is changed from: cat << EOF >> $BUILD_DIR/DEBIAN/control to: cat << EOF | sed "s/ $//" | egrep ": " >> $BUILD_DIR/DEBIAN/control empty fields will be stripped Alternatively, this bug could be refiled against apt-get to support empty fields. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2 ii file 5.11-1 ii libc6 2.13-27 ersions of packages checkinstall recommends: ii make 3.81-8.1 Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
