Public bug reported:

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.

** Affects: dkms (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

** Patch added: "fix.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729051/+attachment/5001318/+files/fix.patch

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