Bug#311941: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.11: Package description says "patch does not apply to pristine sources", which doesn't seem to be the case

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@comlink.org>]

Package: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.11
Version: 2.6.11-5
Severity: normal

Hi,

I am surprised by the package description which says:

 Note that these patches do NOT apply
 against a pristine Linux 2.6.11 kernel but only against
 kernel-source-2.6.11_2.6.11.orig.tar.gz from the Debian archive.

In fact, the patch applies to a pristine source without any errors. And,
well, until today I thought that the kernel-patch-debian packages
actually do contain the differences between the vanilla sources and
Debian's kernel sources. Is this not true? If not, why does the patch
apply cleanly?

Thanks,

Johannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kernel-patch-debian-2.6.11 depends on:
ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-6    high-quality block-sorting file co

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