Checkinstall cannot create a package if the current directory contain space in name

[Ansus]

If the name of current directory, in which the software to be installed is located, contains spaces, checkinstall cannot build a package.

[Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)]

Well, package dirs should be equal packagename-version and should not contain spaces. But I can confirm this bug in Lucid.
Did a test with mediatomb:
Downloaded sources using apt-get source mediatomb
installed build-dep using apt-get build-dep mediatomb
renamed the 'mediatomb-version' folder to 'mediatomb version'
autoreconf -i + ./configure
checkinstall
failed with the following error:
Building file list...OK
/usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1772: [: /home/andreas/bzr/mediatomb: binary operator expected
/usr/bin/checkinstall: line 1875: cd: /home/andreas/bzr/mediatomb: No such file or directory

[Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)]

Can confirm the presence of this issue in the latest upstream version (1.6.2).

[Ansus (neptunia)]

This is especially annoying for russian users because the usual name for desktop directory is "Рабочий стол" - literally "Working table". So any software that cannot work with directories, located on the desktop produces inconvinience.

Another example is alien utility which completely cannot work with non-English names in path, so one even cannot run it for software stored in "Загрузки" (standard Gnome name for download directory in Russian locale), neither from desktop, nor fron home directory of a user with Cyrillic name.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Marking Triaged/Low at request from Andreas.

[Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)]

Could you please test if there's been improvement in the latest package checkinstall-1.6.2-3ubuntu1

[Chris Balcum (sherl0k)]

Someone has already found a fix for this and forked it in their own git repo:

https://github.com/ruxkor/checkinstall/commit/9f2cef7810cfec70c37a79b024989bb479cada7e

Can someone please merge this upstream? It's as simple as just adding quotes around variables (which should be done anyway)

[Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)]

This has been fixed upstream, and a patched package wil be uploaded to Debian as soon as I finish some other issues.