2.6.14-rc5 and version number thingy ...

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello, ...

I have upgraded SVN to 2.6.14-rc5, and did a powerpc build. The only
difference was CONFIG_AIRO, and the build completed fine, and i saw that
CONFIG_AIRO was enabled in other arches, so i suppose powerpc was added or
something such, not sure, but in general things will work out fine so the next
upload will be of 2.6.14-rc5, if nobody objects.

This brings us to the version number mess. the previous packages where :

  kernel version : 2.6.14-rc4
  debian version : 2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-0experimental.1

But apparently this caused build problems in the arch-indep part, which was
fixed one time by Simon Horman, and then refixed another way by Bastian Blank.
Still, it failed for external modules, since make-kpkg complains that the
version is not policy compliant.

Andres Salomon proposed another approach, and namely to do :

  kernel version : 2.6.14rc5-1
  debian version : 2.6.13+2.6.14rc5-0experimental.1

Which has the advantage of not differing from the normal way of handling
things, but currently dies with :

  make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sven/debian/kernel/trunk/build/linux-2.6-2.6.13+2.6.14rc5'
  chmod +x debian/bin/gencontrol.py
  debian/bin/gencontrol.py
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "debian/bin/gencontrol.py", line 462, in ?
      main()
    File "debian/bin/gencontrol.py", line 446, in main
      changelog = read_changelog()
    File "debian/bin/gencontrol.py", line 51, in read_changelog
      version = parse_version(match.group('header_version'))
    File "debian/bin/gencontrol.py", line 118, in parse_version
      ret = match.groupdict()
  AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groupdict'
  make[1]: *** [debian/control-real] Error 1

Well, what do you think about those choices ? Anyone volunteers to fix this
last problem ? Bastian ? Maybe i should learn python, i got some python book
at debconf'03 that is lying around somewhere here :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther