Confirmed by two users ... in progress because the code snippet I included in the original post fixes it, but that snippet hasn't been committed. Maybe I should get hooked up with some SVN or something.
** Changed in: checkinstall (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress -- Packages built on AMD64 default to wrong architecture type. https://launchpad.net/bugs/50892 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs