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Re: Bug in kernel compilation section of the 'Installation Guide"



On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 11:44 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> (2015-05-04):
> > Tom H, le Mon 04 May 2015 03:19:53 -0400, a écrit :
> > > Against which package should a bug in the 'Installation Guide" be reported?
> > 
> > See section 1.9. Your Documentation Help is Welcome
> > 
> > We welcome suggestions, comments, patches, and bug reports (use the package
> > installation-guidefor bugs, but check first to see if the problem is already reported).
> > 
> > > Even though the make-kpkg man page says "--revision number", it's not
> > > clear that it has to start with a number. In fact, the option's
> > > misnamed because it's the package version and not its revision (in the
> > > Debian policy meaning) that's being set -  a fact that's more or less
> > > acknowledged in the man page with "Changes the version number ...".
> > 
> > I have already commited a suggested fix yesterday.
> 
> FWIW I've only now discovered we're documenting how to compile a kernel
> in the installation guide… Wouldn't it make sense to just point at the
> kernel handbook instead, so that we don't have to chase updates and
> duplicate work (e.g.  “make deb-pkg” being preferred to make-kpkg)?

#784206

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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