The easiest way to disable the hook is built in to the package. If you run "sudo dpkg-reconfigure debsums" it will ask you "Should debsums files be generated automatically by apt-get?", and you can change the setting to "No". This should fix your system.
Anyways, I looked into solving the actual problem too. Yesterday I uploaded a new debsums to Debian with proper multiarch support (thanks to a patch by Anders Kaseorg). I tested it on an amd64 system with i386 multiarch libraries installed. With the new Debian version of debsums, running "debsums libc6" correctly lists "x86_64-linux-gnu" files, and running "debsums libc6:i386" correctly lists "i386-linux-gnu" files. So then on this system I installed the Ubuntu debsums .deb which is supposed to have multiarch support. When running "debsums libc6", it lists the "i386-linux-gnu" files (from libc6:i386, which is wrong), and when running "debsums libc6:i386" it dies of this error: debsums: invalid package name 'libc6:i386'. While this isn't the exact same problem as the bug reporters had, clearly there is something wrong with the multiarch logic in this version of debsums. I haven't actually tested the new Debian debsums on Ubuntu, but I suspect this would solve it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/809924 Title: debsums "invalid package name" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debsums/+bug/809924/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
