Unfortunately it is not sufficient to provide virtual packages
that exactly match the ABI name. For example, 'reportbug kernel'
doesn't find the virtual package, and neither do dpkg commands
such as 'dpkg -l linux-image-$(uname -r)'.
svn path=/dists/sid/linux/; revision=22034
* debian/bin/gencontrol.py: Export internal ABI.
* debian/lib/python/debian_linux/debian.py: Export three-part version.
* debian/rules.real
- Provide more variables.
- Make udeb generation easier.
- Use internal ABI for files.
* debian/templates/control.*: Provide name with internal ABI.
* debian/templates/image.plain.*: Use internal ABI.
svn path=/dists/sid/linux/; revision=22017
Use the same template syntax and implementation for maintainer
scripts, translations, etc. as we do for the control files. Define
the image-stem and initramfs variables to replace the old K and I
variables.
After this, debian/linux-* and debian/po/*.po are generated files (at
source preparation time) and should be ignored in svn.
Use debhelper to install the generated files at build time. This also
results in a redundant dependency on debconf (which we already have in
Pre-Depends), but this seems harmless.
svn path=/dists/trunk/linux/; revision=20508
Maintainer scripts generated by kernel-package pass an environment
variable $KERNEL_ARCH to hook scripts. This is undocumented but seems
to be the architecture string that the kernel will report
(e.g. through 'uname -m').
However, for the past few years our maintainer scripts have set it to
the source architecture name instead. Since no-one reported this bug,
I don't think anyone depends on it. codesearch didn't find any users
either. So remove it.
svn path=/dists/trunk/linux/; revision=20507
Ben Hutchings
Bastian Blank