Using checkinstall on Debian 12 fails for any package

On Debian 12 using checkinstall fails on every package I attempt to use it on. If the package has not been make installed prior to using checkinstall, then checkinstall fails as soon as the installation process tries to see or touch a file it already installed (ie: running ranlib on a library after it copies it). If one runs make install first to put the files on the filesystem, then checkinstall will fail because it won't be able to overwrite the existing file. I also tried with fakeroot which fails to be able to create temp files. I have tried --fstrans=yes to try and turn on filesystem translation, but this has no effect. As far as I can tell, checkinstall is simply broken. Is checkinstall hopelessly broken? This would surprise me as it was a staple for so long. Here is a log of the typical use failing: $ checkinstall --fstrans=yes checkinstall 1.6.3, Copyright 2010 Felipe Eduardo Sanchez Diaz Duran This software is released under the GNU GPL. ***************************************** **** Debian package creation selected *** ***************************************** This package will be built according to these values: 0 - Maintainer: [ kfitzner@artoo ] 1 - Summary: [ Apache Guacamole server ] 2 - Name: [ guacamole-server ] 3 - Version: [ 1.5.5 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ guacamole-server-1.5.5 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Recommends: [ ] 12 - Suggests: [ ] 13 - Provides: [ guacamole-server ] 14 - Conflicts: [ ] 15 - Replaces: [ ] Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: Installing with make install... ========================= Installation results =========================== Making install in src/libguac make: Entering directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' Making install in . make: Entering directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' make: Entering directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' /usr/bin/mkdir -p '/usr/lib' /bin/bash ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c libguac.la '/usr/lib' libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libguac.so.24.0.0 /usr/lib/libguac.so.24.0.0 libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libguac.so.24.0.0 libguac.so.24 || { rm -f libguac.so.24 && ln -s libguac.so.24.0.0 libguac.so.24; }; }) libtool: install: (cd /usr/lib && { ln -s -f libguac.so.24.0.0 libguac.so || { rm -f libguac.so && ln -s libguac.so.24.0.0 libguac.so; }; }) libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libguac.lai /usr/lib/libguac.la libtool: install: /usr/bin/install -c .libs/libguac.a /usr/lib/libguac.a libtool: install: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libguac.a chmod: cannot access '/usr/lib/libguac.a': No such file or directory make: *** [Makefile:649: install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' make: *** [Makefile:1204: install-am] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' make: *** [Makefile:1041: install-recursive] Error 1 make: Leaving directory '/home/kfitzner/devel/guacamole-server-1.5.5/src/libguac' make: *** [Makefile:545: install-recursive] Error 1 **** Installation failed. Aborting package creation. Cleaning up...OK Bye. }