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

[Guido Günther]

Hi Nicolas,
On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 10:02:25PM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote:
> 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.

The source and the binary package names can already differ due to the
`KDEB_SOURCENAME` variable (and we're making use of that).

What this patch adds is the ability to control the suffix so we can
e.g. build a `linux-ng-foo` and a `linux-stable-bar` instead of having a
linux-image-7.3.17, linux-image-7.3.18 (or with git versions or …). It's
just about having a bit more control over the generated binary package
names so we can decide what replaces what on upgrades.

I have tested the patch with and without setting KDEB_PKGNAMEVERSION.
Without setting this variable nothing should change for existing users.

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Kind regards
> Nicolas
>