On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 03:27:52PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > I'm not convinced we can do this through a dpatch. The problem is, dpatch > must first be run on the source before we can do a proper make clean. If > you've just downloaded the kernel-source package, and run a debuild on it, > it will start by cleaning; this will nuke the debian subdirectory, and > cause confusion/annoyance. We could just modify the Makefile in diff.gz, > but then it wouldn't be overly clear that the change is necessary. I > think the best solution is just to modify the orig.tar.gz, and get it > accepted upstream for 2.6.9 so we don't have to resort to such things.
Umm, again, debian has the concept of a .orig.gz and a diff.gz and we shouldn't mess with .orig.gz unless we can't redistribute it. Given that I can easily build a kernel even without that fix I can't see how it's criticial in any way.
