linux-kernel - Re: Building Debian from source spit out some warnings...please shed some light

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Message-ID: <20250703-quick-celadon-horse-afb4de@l-nschier-aarch64>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 15:37:38 +0200
From: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@...ux.dev>
To: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Cc: masahiroy@...nel.org, nathan@...nel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building Debian from source spit out some warnings...please shed
 some light

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 05:57:44PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> On 12:53 Thu 03 Jul 2025, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 04:19:35AM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> > > 
> > > Alright, I was doing customary kernel building via upstream source and come
> > > across these warnings .....
> > > 
> > > dpkg-genbuildinfo --build=full -O../linux-upstream_6.15.4-00002-g4844502d6635-1_amd64.buildinfo
> > >  dpkg-genchanges --build=full -O../linux-upstream_6.15.4-00002-g4844502d6635-1_amd64.changes
> > > using Dpkg::Control::Fields::field_transfer_single() with an an implicit field argument is deprecated at /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges line 245.
> > > using Dpkg::Control::Fields::field_transfer_single() with an an implicit field argument is deprecated at /usr/bin/dpkg-genchanges line 245.
> > [...]
[...]

> > Which version of dpkg-dev do you have installed on your system?
> 
> FYI
> 
> bhaskar_17:55:19_Thu Jul 03: :~>dpkg-query --status dpkg-dev
> Package: dpkg-dev
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: utils
> Installed-Size: 1728
> Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@...ts.debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Multi-Arch: foreign
> Source: dpkg
> Version: 1.21.22

hm.  My bookworm chroot has dpkg-dev=1.22.5~bpo12+1, but even if I 
downgrade to 1.21.22 I cannot see the messages you reported.

Kind regards,
Nicolas

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