Comment 7 for bug 975140

Hi Andreas,

If you feel that the workaround is not enough, please reopen the bug
report: it will be definitively closed when there will be a real fix,
rather than a workaround.

Fabrice

2012/4/7 Andreas Noteng <email address hidden>:
> On 07. april 2012 20:16, Fabrice Coutadeur wrote:
>> Uploaded: thanks for your work! I deleted some unnecessary changes to
>> keep the diff as minimal as possible and run update-maintainer.
> Hello, and thanks for uploading. However, I do not think this upload
> fixes bug #78455, it's merely a workaround. The bug is that file system
> translation does not work, the workaround is to make checkinstall not
> default to file system translation, the bug still exists. I'll continue
> to work with upstream to find a real fix for this.
> Unless you disagree, I'll sett bug #78455 back to triaged.
>
> Regards
> Andreas Noteng
>
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> Title:
>  Please sync latest checkinstall from Debian unstable
>
> Status in “checkinstall” package in Ubuntu:
>  Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>  Please sync latest checkinstall revision from Debian unstable, and apply the attached debdiff.
>  The newest update in Debian fixes some minor bugs not reported in the Ubuntu BTS, the debdiff is a wokaround for bug #78455  which has been present in Ubuntu for years.
>  I've tested with an updated Precise installation, and the problem still exists.
>  With this workaround, file system translation will be disabled by default.
>
>  checkinstall (1.6.2-3ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low
>
>    * Disable file system translation by default
>
>   -- Andreas Noteng <email address hidden>  Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:16:05
>  +0200
>
>  checkinstall (1.6.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
>
>    * Don't include empty control fields (closes: #666262)
>    * Update Standards-Version
>      - Update debian/copyright to version 1.0
>    * Don't include directories in conffiles (closes: #655453)
>
>   -- Andreas Noteng <email address hidden>  Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:22:33
>  +0200
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