Package: checkinstall Version: 1.6.2-4 Followup-For: Bug #809415 whitespace problems from the original reporter not-withstanding, this bug is still present and annoying and trivial to fix.
It also might be better titled "checkinstall logic to identify conffiles is broken" In this: === # Tag files in /etc to be conffiles find -L $BUILD_DIR/etc -type f 2> /dev/null | sed -e "s,$BUILD_DIR,," | \ > $BUILD_DIR/DEBIAN/conffiles === Remove the trailing "|" pipe from the middle line. The syntax as present currently will /always/ cause the conffile list to be empty, no matter /what/ the output of the find... bit is. Also this is a dupe of #781169 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (490, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages checkinstall depends on: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24 ii file 1:5.30-1+deb9u1 ii libc6 2.26-6 Versions of packages checkinstall recommends: ii make 4.1-9.1 Versions of packages checkinstall suggests: ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2 -- no debconf information