Package: kernel-package Version: 12.036+nmu3 Severity: minor I am using Kubuntu 12.10 32bit in a german version.
The manpage (german) of make-kpkg is from 2002 and have one wrong and some incomplete informations. I am not sure but I think the english version of the manpage has the same state. 1. wrong information The man-page tell that there is a need to run make-kpkg as root (what is extrem risky!), with fakeroot or to tell him by parameter how to become (fakeroot) root. I tested it myself. From userside there is no need to tell make-kpkg how to become root or to run it as (fake)root. Because make-kpkg handle it for itself. I checked it. All files in my created deb are with root-rights without running make-kpkg as (fake)root. And I was able to install the deb without any errors. Just cancle this information. 2. missing and incomplite configuration Two usual usecases for make-kpkg: a) The configuration of the kernel is completely missing. b) The configuration is from an older kernel-version and some new-options there are unset. So the config is incomplete. How does make-kpkg behave in such situations? The man-page-described behaviour is unclear and maybe wrong. (I need more time to test it myself.) The author or code-maintainer should be contacted to clearing this questions and bring the man-page to a real state. Because of missunderstandig the communication ways I opened a similary bug- report on the Ubuntu-BugTracking-System "lunchpad". <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gst-plugins-ugly0.10/+bug/1160735> -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers quantal-updates APT policy: (500, 'quantal-updates'), (500, 'quantal-security'), (500, 'quantal-proposed'), (500, 'quantal'), (100, 'quantal-backports') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.5.0-27-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii binutils 2.22.90.20120924-0ubuntu2 ii build-essential 11.5ubuntu3 ii debianutils 4.3.4 ii file 5.11-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9ubuntu1 ii make 3.81-8.2ubuntu2 ii module-init-tools 3.16-1ubuntu6 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.1ubuntu2 Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii cpio 2.11-8ubuntu3 Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: pn btrfs-tools <none> ii bzip2 1.0.6-4 pn docbook-utils <none> ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1ubuntu2 pn grub | grub2 <none> ii initramfs-tools [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.103ubuntu0.2 pn jfsutils <none> ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 5.9-10ubuntu1 ii linux-source 3.5.0.27.43 ii linux-source-3.5.0 [linux-source] 3.5.0-27.46 pn mcelog <none> pn oprofile <none> ii pcmciautils 018-8 ii ppp 2.4.5-5ubuntu2 ii procps 1:3.3.3-2ubuntu3 pn quota <none> pn reiserfsprogs <none> pn squashfs-tools <none> ii udev 175-0ubuntu13 pn xfsprogs <none> ii xmlto 0.0.25-2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
