On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 21:25:47 +0000, mangus wrote:

> me too I heavly maneged my box with compiling lot of thing by myself using
> checkinstall thousand times and I don't have this problem...
> when checkinstall prompt me about the package description I enter only the
> current date! like 26/01/2005 and only this
> Uhm...strange really..

Did you try to use the latest pkgtool version (pkgtools-10.1.0-i486-2.tgz)
from the 24 Jan 2005 changelog?

Do your non-standard package descriptions sometimes include two
occurrences of the label "PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:"? Mine did. Checkinstall
apparently inserted an extra section label, for some reason. I'm wondering
if this was the main problem and perhaps not the failure to
otherwise follow the strict Slackware format.

I'll run a couple of tests and see.