Comment 6 for bug 1729051

I haven't because this is a Debian/Ubuntu-specific bug. IIRC
Debian/Ubuntu's file is different from vanilla dkms'.

2017-11-15 18:56 GMT-03:00 Brian Murray <email address hidden>:
> Have you submitted it to the upstream developers of dkms on github? The
> file is included there and the project can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/dell/dkms
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> Title:
> dkms mkdeb fails: Can't find package
>
> Status in dkms package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in dkms package in Debian:
> New
>
> 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.
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