linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] builddeb: Pass the kernel:debarch substvar to dpkg-genchanges

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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATSVtZDTOEsCNtvhn2ifjrz4-+5Okq7SYpPC_CDvhLA_g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 14 Nov 2017 00:25:00 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
Cc:     Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] builddeb: Pass the kernel:debarch substvar to dpkg-genchanges

2017-11-10 3:27 GMT+09:00 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>:
> At the end of "make bindeb-pkg" I noticed the following warning:
>
> dpkg-genchanges: warning: unknown substitution variable ${kernel:debarch}
>
> It turns out that since dpkg version 1.19.0 dpkg-genchanges honors
> substitution variables in the Description field, while earlier
> versions silently left them alone, see https://bugs.debian.org/856547.
>
> The result is an incomplete description of the linux-headers package
> in the generated .changes file.  Fix it by passing the kernel:debarch
> substitution variable to dpkg-genchanges.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild/misc.  Thanks!




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada