From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266514AbUHOHNa (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:13:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266517AbUHOHNa (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:13:30 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:1077 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266514AbUHOHN2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:13:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:15:59 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Andres Salomon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] don't delete debian directory in official debian builds Message-ID: <20040815071559.GB7182@mars.ravnborg.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andres Salomon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org References: <1092512343.3971.23.camel@spiral.internal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092512343.3971.23.camel@spiral.internal> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Sam