Re: [PATCH] kbuild: deb-pkg: allow to set package name version

[Nicolas Schier]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 09:16:14PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> Instead of hardcoding ${KERNELRELEASE} in the package name allow
> the user to override this.
> 
> This can be useful if one doesn't want to accumulate different packages
> for every commit or micro version bump by setting
> KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION=7.3 or even KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION=stable.

I am not yet convinced, that this is a good idea.  Do you want to
elaborate a bit more, why you think this is necessary?  Have you tested
your patch?  I don't like that source package name and binary package
name divert w/o good reasoning.

Kind regards
Nicolas