checkinstall fails to add files to dpkg conffiles

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Could you please merge it.

It is a simple bug and is solved.

Thanks.

This bug doesn't affect upstream, but is a regression from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655453 which was filed and fixed in Debian. The Debian patch is the source of this bug since the fix was incorrect. I'm reporting it to Debian and adding a note to the upstream bug to revise the fix before commit. I'll add an Ubuntu debdiff as a patch so it can easily be removed when this package is synced again.

After further research, the regression has been reported to Debian and a patch is attached to that report. It does not appear to have been applied. Debdiff attached for precise.

Debdiff for Trusty and all newer releases.

The attachment "Debdiff for precise" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

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Bug has been fixed upstream http://bugtrack.izto.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35

I've uploaded this fix for Zesty, thanks for working on it. For this to be fixed in a stable release of Ubuntu we'll need a test case as described at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates. Do you know of one that we could use? Thanks in advance.

This bug was fixed in the package checkinstall - 1.6.2-4ubuntu2

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checkinstall (1.6.2-4ubuntu2) zesty; urgency=medium

  * 0012-fix-conffiles.patch: Fix bad pipe/redirect combo
    to enable conffiles generation (LP: #1304760)

 -- Brian Morton <email address hidden> Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:07:00 -0500

root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~# apt-get install checkinstall
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~# apt-get source haproxy
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~# cd haproxy*
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# mkdir -p etc/haproxy
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# touch etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# echo 'etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg' >> includes
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# checkinstall -y --include=includes
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# dpkg -e haproxy*.deb
root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# cat DEBIAN/conffiles | wc -l
0

after applying patched package of checkinstall, repeat the above steps

root@checkinstall-bug-trusty:~/haproxy-1.5.14# cat DEBIAN/conffiles | wc -l
1

FYI this is fixed in Debian in 1.6.2-6.