Bug#396683: linux-source-2.6.18: make-kpkg fails - "debian" subdirectory missing?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Meik Hellmund <Meik.Hellmund@math.uni-leipzig.de> writes:

> Package: linux-source-2.6.18
> Version: 2.6.18-3
> Severity: important
>
> # make-kpkg kernel_image
> /usr/share/kernel-package/rules:1637: *** Error. I do not know where the kernel image goes to [kimagedest undefined] The usual case for this is that I could not determine which arch or subarch tihs machine belongs to. Please specify a subarch, and try again..  Stop.
>
> There is no debian subdirectory in the unpacked source file. 
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 4.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
>
> Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.18 depends on:
> ii  binutils                      2.17-3     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
> ii  bzip2                         1.0.3-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
>
> Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.18 recommends:
> ii  gcc                          4:4.1.1-13  The GNU C compiler
> ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]         2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Development Librari
> ii  make                         3.81-3      The GNU version of the "make" util
>
> -- no debconf information

What version of make-kpkg is this? You might have to use the unstable
version.

MfG
        Goswin