Ubuntu 24.04 checkinstall fails

[ouboub]

I have used checkinstall in Ubuntu 18.04, and 16.04, however in 24.04 I it seems no longer work as expected.
Here is a step by step description (but you need a recent emacs version installed)

clone the auctex package via
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/auctex.git

switch to the master branch via
git switch --guess master

run

./autogen.sh

run
./configure --with-emacs=/opt/emacs29/bin/emacs --prefix=$HOME/ALLES/ --with-lispdir=$HOME/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git --without-texmf-dir

make

make install

that works
however

checkinstall or checkinstall make install
return the following error.

/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 preview.sty /home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex
/usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file '/home/oub/emacs/site-lisp/packages/auctex-git/auctex/latex': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [Makefile:53: install-texmf] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/oub/tmp/auctex/latex'
make: *** [Makefile:324: install-texmf] Error 2

****  Installation failed. Aborting package creation.

Cleaning up...OK

Bye.

Any idea who is the culprit here?
There is a github page https://github.com/ruxkor/checkinstall
but the last commit is 16 years ago, the issues are not answered. That is why I post it here.
regards

Uwe Brauer

[fffonion]

It seems the translate function was buggy, probably because of a faulty patch done by ubuntu to make the internal installwatch
compilable on newer glibc.

Use checkinstall --fstrans=no works. Disclaimer: don't do this on your box, try inside a container or sandbox.