On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 19:58:52 +0100 Josep Lladonosa <jllad...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:52:24 -0500 Joe Public <
> webmas...@thelotterystation.com> wrote:
> > Package: kernel-package
> > Version: 13.018
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > Linux kernel sources for kernel 4.10-rc1 do not include the file
> > REPORTING-BUGS, however make-kpkg kernel_headers seems to depend on the
> > presence of this file. The recipe fails for kernel_headers due to
> > absence of this file.
> >
> > Creating an empty REPORTING-BUGS file in the kernel source directory
> > resulted in a successful build.
> >
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: stretch/sid
> > APT prefers testing
> > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> >
> > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> >
> > Versions of packages kernel-package depends on:
> > ii bc 1.06.95-9+b2
> > ii binutils 2.27.51.20161201-1
> > ii build-essential 12.2
> > ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
> > ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15
> > ii file 1:5.29-2
> > ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1
> > ii kmod 23-1
> > ii po-debconf 1.0.20
> > ii xmlto 0.0.28-0.1
> > ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.2-1.2
> >
> > Versions of packages kernel-package recommends:
> > ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-6
> > ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-3.3
> > ii kernel-common 13.018
> > pn uboot-mkimage <none>
> >
> > Versions of packages kernel-package suggests:
> > ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 6.0+20161126-1
> > pn linux-source <none>
> >
> > -- no debconf information
> >
> >
>
> I contacted kernel documentation maintainer and said that for 4.10 kernel
> source tree, that file location and its name have changed:
>
> ./REPORTING-BUGS changed to ./Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
>
Here you can find diff for headers.mk. It adds compatibility for kernels >=
4.10.
As in kernel source tree there is only one file from REPORTING-BUGS and
reporting-bugs.rst, new lines add guard for both in order to copy each one
oly if they exist.
:/usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/targets$ diff -u headers.mk.old
headers.mk
--- headers.mk.old 2017-03-04 02:50:04.024045713 +0100
+++ headers.mk 2017-03-04 03:35:42.656057547 +0100
@@ -67,7 +67,10 @@
$(install_file) debian/stamp/conf/vars $(DOCDIR)/conf.vars
$(install_file) CREDITS $(DOCDIR)/
$(install_file) MAINTAINERS $(DOCDIR)/
+ test ! -f REPORTING-BUGS || \
$(install_file) REPORTING-BUGS $(DOCDIR)/
+ test ! -f Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst || \
+ $(install_file) Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst
$(DOCDIR)/
$(install_file) README $(DOCDIR)/
if test -f README.Debian ;
then \
$(install_file) README.Debian
$(DOCDIR)/README.Debian.1st;\
