You're right, clear case of PEBKAC. Please close at your conenience. Yes, it also fails with -CHBAX, don't know why I remembered it worked.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 20:50:10 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: > > Package: dpkg-dev > > Version: 1.18.7 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol > > > * What led up to the situation? > > I want to create a vanilla kernel .deb file. My kernel is configured > to > > have "-SCHBAX" appended to the version. > > The versions when generating Linux kernel packages tend to end up in > the package name. > > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > > ineffective)? > > Ran 'make menuconfig' and 'make deb-pkg' > > * What was the outcome of this action? > > After compiling, when generating the packages, the process fails > with > > dpkg-gencontrol saying "character 'S' not allowed" > > If I remove the 'S' so the suffix in the name becomes "-CHBAX" the > > compilation/package generation succeeds. > > Uppercase letters are not valid in package names. I find it very > strange that just removing S and leaving -CHBAX let it build though. > Are you sure you didn't remove the entire suffix? > > In any case this seems like user error, so I'm planning to close it in > a bit. I'm mostly interested to know if for whatever reason the -CHBAX > was accepted, which it should have not. > > Thanks, > Guillem > -- Rares Aioanei
