Re: make-kpkg broken ?

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

reiner wrote:
> make: [stamp-configure] Error 1 (ignored)
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${kvers}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${kversdeb}
> dpkg-gencontrol: warning: unknown substitution variable ${kvers}
> dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `debian/tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 7
> package `alsa-modules-0.5-2.4.5-ac7':
>  `Recommends' field, reference to `kernel-image-': error in version:
> version string is empty
> dh_builddeb: command returned error code
> make[2]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
> /bin/sh: ./debian/rules: No such file or directory

This is a known problem in alsa, tweaked by a change in debhelper.
Should be fixed before too long.

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