On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:52:24 -0500 Joe Public < webmas...@thelotterystation.com> wrote: > Package: kernel-package > Version: 13.018 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Linux kernel sources for kernel 4.10-rc1 do not include the file > REPORTING-BUGS, however make-kpkg kernel_headers seems to depend on the > presence of this file. The recipe fails for kernel_headers due to > absence of this file. > > Creating an empty REPORTING-BUGS file in the kernel source directory > resulted in a successful build. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: > ii bc 1.06.95-9+b2 > ii binutils 2.27.51.20161201-1 > ii build-essential 12.2 > ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 > ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15 > ii file 1:5.29-2 > ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1 > ii kmod 23-1 > ii po-debconf 1.0.20 > ii xmlto 0.0.28-0.1 > ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.2-1.2 > > Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: > ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-6 > ii docbook-utils 0.6.14-3.3 > ii kernel-common 13.018 > pn uboot-mkimage <none> > > Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: > ii libncurses5-dev [libncurses-dev] 6.0+20161126-1 > pn linux-source <none> > > -- no debconf information > >
I contacted kernel documentation maintainer and said that for 4.10 kernel source tree, that file location and its name have changed: ./REPORTING-BUGS changed to ./Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst so what it should be done is link to it instead in case of 4.10 kernel or higher.
