Public bug reported: For some reason, the Debian version of dkms mkdeb tries to generate a .deb package with the current arch as a suffix in its name, instead of 'all'. However, since the control file wasn't properly set up, the .deb file will have the 'all' suffix and dkms mkdeb will fail.
This bug is also present in Ubuntu. I added a patch to the original Debian bug report, here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832558 but since the original bug report was made about a year ago and nobody cared, I'm hoping that someone will at least fix this for Ubuntu. The patch looks like this: --- a/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:40:41.690069116 -0300 +++ b/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:41:12.137973994 -0300 @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.1 Package: DEBIAN_PACKAGE-dkms -Architecture: all +Architecture: DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), ${misc:Depends} Description: DEBIAN_PACKAGE driver in DKMS format. I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. dkms version is 2.3-3ubuntu3. ** Affects: dkms (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Patch added: "fix.patch" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729051/+attachment/5001318/+files/fix.patch -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to dkms in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729051 Title: dkms mkdeb fails: Can't find package Status in dkms package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: For some reason, the Debian version of dkms mkdeb tries to generate a .deb package with the current arch as a suffix in its name, instead of 'all'. However, since the control file wasn't properly set up, the .deb file will have the 'all' suffix and dkms mkdeb will fail. This bug is also present in Ubuntu. I added a patch to the original Debian bug report, here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832558 but since the original bug report was made about a year ago and nobody cared, I'm hoping that someone will at least fix this for Ubuntu. The patch looks like this: --- a/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:40:41.690069116 -0300 +++ b/etc/dkms/template-dkms-mkdeb/debian/control 2017-10-31 14:41:12.137973994 -0300 @@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ Standards-Version: 3.8.1 Package: DEBIAN_PACKAGE-dkms -Architecture: all +Architecture: DEBIAN_BUILD_ARCH Depends: dkms (>= 1.95), ${misc:Depends} Description: DEBIAN_PACKAGE driver in DKMS format. I'm using Ubuntu 17.10. dkms version is 2.3-3ubuntu3. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dkms/+bug/1729051/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
