Besides, your report is wrong afaik, the issue you have only happens with 2.6.18-rc kernels, while the debian bug you gave a link to also affected older kernels and has been fixed. I admit it was a similar problem however, which concerns the same part of the script.
See https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kernel- package/+bug/58570 -- make-kpkg - fatal error: UTS Release does not match current version https://launchpad.net/bugs/59909 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
