Package: kernel-package Version: 13.018+nmu1 Severity: serious I discussed the state of kernel-package with Manoj and we agreed (see below) that it is not currently in a state suitable for release.
Ben. --- From: Manoj Srivastava <manoj.srivastava.1...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 23:15:30 -0800 Message-ID: <cabkpoev_od02cyamius4w7dc6ejz5bm5eefr0s4ta_w99jm...@mail.gmail.com> To: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>, Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbu...@vger.kernel.org>, Liz Zhang <liz...@microsoft.com>, Lili Deng <v-l...@microsoft.com>, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@linaro.org>, Michal Marek <michal.l...@markovi.net>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg Hi, Well, if there are users, then I'll file the return bug, but I'll take a look to see how but rooted this is, and perhaps even try building personal imaged Deb packages again (I stopped doing that) If should not go into buster in it's current state. It should be killed dead of it can't be brought back to a working state. Manoj On Thu, Mar 7, 2019, 10:43 PM Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masah...@socionext.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 6:56 AM Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 22:48 -0800, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does this have any users? > > Recently, I received a regression report. > So, yes. There are users. > > > > > I can take a stand at making it work, but I am > > > unsure of there are enough people interested in make-kpkg anymore to > make > > > it worthwhile. > > > > > > There is a man pager that might be of minor interest, but that can be > > > taken over by the kernel team if they want > > I do not want to maintain the dying package. > > > > > [...] > > > > I assume you're referring to kernel-img.conf. I would be happy to add > > that to linux-base, with some clarification of which settings are > > understood by which packages. > > > > I take it that you don't want kernel-package to be included in buster, > > so can you open an RC bug to say so? > > Also, could you make sure it won't come back to bullseye or later ? > > How about Ubuntu? Is it out of your control? > > > > > Ben. > > > > -- > > Ben Hutchings > > friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. > > > > > > > -- > Best Regards > Masahiro Yamada > -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages kernel-package depends on: ii bc 1.07.1-2+b1 ii binutils 2.31.1-15 ii build-essential 12.6 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.5 ii file 1:5.35-4 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii kmod 26-1 ii lzma 9.22-2.1 ii po-debconf 1.0.21 ii xmlto 0.0.28-2.1 ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.2.4-1 Versions of packages kernel-package recommends: ii cpio 2.12+dfsg-6 pn docbook-utils <none> ii kernel-common 13.018+nmu1 pn uboot-mkimage <none> Versions of packages kernel-package suggests: ii libncurses-dev 6.1+20181013-2 pn linux-source <none> -- debconf-show failed
