linux-kernel - RFC: refactoring the deb build

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Message-Id: <1549557659-19137-1-git-send-email-info@metux.net>
Date:   Thu,  7 Feb 2019 17:40:55 +0100
From:   "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <info@...ux.net>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com, michal.lkml@...kovi.net
Subject: RFC: refactoring the deb build

Hello folks,

here are some patches for build process that allow building debian packages
right the usual canonical way (eg. via dpkg-buildpackage or dck-buildpackage),
instead 'manually' setting up the build environment and calling make.
So, from a debian native perspective, turning it from head onto feet ;-)

dpkg-buildpackage + friends expect the debian/rules file being present in
the unpacked source tree and driving the actual build (the 'deb-pkg' make
target does that quite the opposite way). Obviously, 'make deb-pkg' can't
be used directly, as it would destroy our debian/rules file ...

To archieve this, I've done several things:

* place .config file to the source tree (not in this patch queue)
* add some helper targets to the toplevel makefile, so we can just ask
  for certain things, eg. version, arch, etc, that we need later
* fix some missing dependencies in the generated debian/control file
* change scripts/package/mkdebian so that the name of the generated rules
  file name can be changed via environment
* a generic debian/rules file for driving the build

The last patch isn't really meant to be merged yet (need to change the
deb-pkg rule to not overwrite debian/rules anymore) - just including it
for illustration.

What do you think about this ?

--mtx