On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 19:38 +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > 1. The laptop will ship with stretch preinstalled, but with a custom > kernel built using the linux-source-x.xx.xx package with a custom > version number, such as linux-image-4.14.13-iitb-amd64.
A silly nitpick but the "4.14.13-iitb-amd64" in package a named "linux- image-4.14.13-iitb-amd64" is actually the kernel ABI (4.14.13-iitb) and arch (amd64) which is not exactly/necessarily the same as the version. There is also a third field "flavour" which you don't have here but which would go between the two e.g. "linux-image-4.14.0-3-rt-amd64" is a rt patched kernel. You should definitately give the package a distinct version and you should _probably_ give it either a distinct ABI or flavour (or possibly both). You will probably also want to put a digit in your distinct ABI so you can rev it if needed. > 4. Users will be made aware of the fact that this is Debian with a > custom kernel without ambiguity. I _think_ you can add hooks/files to the package so that reportbug DTRT here, but I don't know the specifics of how. Ian.
