Bug#627838: [debian-kernel-handbook] Wrong instruction in 4.5 Building a custom kernel from Debian kernel source ("version number does not start with digit")

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-kernel-handbook
Version: 1.0.10
Severity: normal

There is a wrong command in section 4.5 Building a custom kernel from 
Debian kernel source:

> $ make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 deb-pkg

This command fails - after a real long time - with:
> dpkg-deb: error: parsing file 
> '/home/chealer/sources/linux-source-2.6.39/debian/hdrtmp/DEBIAN/control' 
> near line 3 package 'linux-headers-2.6.39':
>  erreur dans la chaîne Version « custom.1.0 »: version number does not 
> start with digit
> make[1]: *** [deb-pkg] Erreur 2
> make: *** [deb-pkg] Erreur 2

The French says 'error in Version string "custom.1.0"'.
Apparently dpkg-deb no longer accepts Version strings that start with 
something other than a digit.

There is however an easy workaround, changing the version string, for 
example to "1.0":
> $ make KDEB_PKGVERSION=1.0 deb-pkg