Comment 4 for bug 317255

Got same error installing LAME

grep: /var/tmp/tmp.dInDvjg71u/newfile: No such file or directory

Copying files to the temporary directory...OK

Stripping ELF binaries and libraries...OK

Compressing man pages...OK

Building file list...OK

Building Debian package... FAILED!

*** Failed to build the package

Do you want to see the log file? [y]: y

dpkg-deb: parse error, in file '/var/tmp/tmp.dInDvjg71u/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 3 package '0--name-':
 newline in field name `Development/Libraries
/var/tmp/tmp.WAMZtGfY8r/dpkgbuild.log

$ apt-cache policy checkinstall
checkinstall:
  Installed: 1.6.1-10
  Candidate: 1.6.1-10
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.1-10 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

:$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

This seems to be a problem with older releases as this was not encountered on 11.04.