Problem with dpkg-scanpackages

[Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>]

Hi folks,

dpkg-scanpackages is not working properly.

It used to produce this kind of entry in Packages 
 
Package: alsa-base-udeb
Source: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.25+3~deb7u1
Installed-Size: 18
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Provides: alsa
Recommends: alsa-utils
Description: ALSA driver configuration files for Debian Installer
Description-md5: 1fd11f56df1b5d2abf4c17fd71f880b5
Section: debian-installer
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base-udeb_1.0.25+3~deb7u1_all.udeb
Size: 1266
MD5sum: 07311d814b05453d8f2887060cfd40a8
SHA1: e531d9db2717b65f461fe86967b805897dc5f9cb
SHA256: e88a29225501835be63fcf17802c4f5f3355e403d0b8f0f6295af80e45ad3414

It now produces

Package: alsa-base-udeb
Source: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.25+3~deb7u1
Architecture: all
Maintainer: Debian ALSA Maintainers <pkg-alsa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Installed-Size: 18
Recommends: alsa-utils
Provides: alsa
Filename: pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base-udeb_1.0.25+3~deb7u1_all.udeb
Size: 1266
MD5sum: 07311d814b05453d8f2887060cfd40a8
SHA1: e531d9db2717b65f461fe86967b805897dc5f9cb
SHA256: e88a29225501835be63fcf17802c4f5f3355e403d0b8f0f6295af80e45ad3414
Section: debian-installer
Priority: optional
Description: ALSA driver configuration files for Debian Installer
 This package contains minimum configuration files for
 the ALSA drivers for the Debian Installer.

Note the different position of the checksums.

Will the Packages file with the second format still work when producing CDs?
If not, how can the present format be switched back to the original format?

Thanks.

What a way to spend Christmas day.

Phil.

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