Hi, for my issue, the attached dirty(?) fix makes make-kpkg linux_image work again.
Regards, Tino
--- /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/kernel_version.mk.orig 2008-05-02 07:06:28.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/share/kernel-package/ruleset/kernel_version.mk 2010-07-08 00:02:45.316669641 +0200 @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ @echo "$(strip $(EXTRAVERSION))" debian_LOCALVERSION: - @echo $(if $(strip $(localver-full)),"$(strip $(localver-full))", "$(strip $(LOCALVERSION))") + @./scripts/setlocalversion debian_TOPDIR: # 2.6 kernels declared TOPDIR obsolete, so use srctree if it exists