Package: src:linux Version: 3.16.7-ckt4-3 Severity: normal Hi,
Debian's Linux kernel packages contain a number of checks and balances to make sure that a newly uploaded package is ABI-compatible with a previous one, and which makes the build error out when this would not be the case. While this is a useful thing for you, maintainers, to have, these checks are fairly annoying for someone not so familiar with the source package who wants to compile a custom kernel. Last time I ran against this, after a lot of digging I found that there was a way to disable these checks by creating a specially-crafted changelog entry, but it's been a while and I forgot the details. Today I had to do it again; I just wasted several hours having the kernel build, only to see that I had done it wrong and I will have to do it all over again. This is why we have README.source. Please use it. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
