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

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Mon Nov 13 2017 - 10:25:52 EST


2017-11-10 3:27 GMT+09:00 Sven Joachim <svenjoac@xxxxxx>:
> 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@xxxxxx>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild/misc. Thanks!




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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada