Re: kernel-package 10.001 introduced to experimental

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:12:50PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         The problem reported with linux-2.6 is due to the code that
>  decides where DEBDIR is at the moment -- /usr/share/kernel-package,
>  or ./debian. Currently, it erroneously uses presence of ./debian to
>  make that determination, which obviously fails for official source
>  trees.
> 
>         Around line 87 of /usr/share/kernel-package /rules, use the
>  following instead; now it checks for ./debian/kernel_version.mk.
>  I'll make the test more robust in the next release.
> 
> define which_debdir
> DEBDIR=$(shell if test -f ./debian/kernel_version.mk; then echo ./debian; else echo $(LIBLOC); fi)
> endef

Thanks, do you want me to test that?

>         Please note that the experimental releases are likely to be
>  somewhat flakey until we finalize the hierarchy under ./debian (The
>  next upload shall have a preliminary layout, but nothing has been set
>  in stone yet).  Indeed, until a release hits Sid, I would say nothing
>  is set in stone.

Understood, my comments and bug report were only intended
as part of the development process for the experimenatl release.

-- 
Horms