Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:15:59 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] don't delete debian directory in official debian builds |
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On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 03:39:03PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Hi, > > Somewhere along the 2.6 series, there was a change made that causes > distclean to automatically delete the debian/ subdirectory from the top > of the kernel tree. This causes grief for the official debian kernel > packages; the debian directory shouldn't be deleted in the packages. > Please apply the attached patch; it causes the debian/ subdirectory to > only be deleted if there's no debian/official. > > An even better solution would be to mark the debian directory as being > created by the kernel (touch debian/linus), and only delete it if the > kernel created it.
Such special cases are not acceptable.
If this causes a problem then there are the following options: 1) Rename directory in debian or the kernel 2) Debian apply a patch to the kernel
Preference to 1).
Comments?
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