On Mon, 04 Apr 2011, Gordon Haverland wrote: > In terms of the kernels I compiled myself, they were named > according to the instructions that were present at one time for > kernel-package. The README.gz in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package > still shows version strings that are not strictly numeric. The > make-kpkg man page talks about numbers, but goes on to say that > the field is alphanumerics plus a few other characters.
Feel free to file bug against kernel-package to improve its documentation. > As far as wideland goes, that is just one of the other packages > that showed up in my log files, because dpkg-query had a problem > with the version string. There are other packages which also > trigger this error. As far as I know, I never have had wideland > installed on this computer. They were also only mentioned in the available file. You can quickly get rid of it with "dpkg --clear-avail", it's of no use if you don't use dselect. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
