Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: Build linux-tools package with 'make deb-pkg'

[Joerg Roedel]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 03:46:30AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > The advice I got from one of the perf developers - possibly Peter
> > Zijlstra - was that changes to the perf kernel interface are backward-
> > compatible but newer versions of the perf tool may depend on newer
> > kernel features.  New features involve a bump to the 2nd (at the time,
> > it was the 3rd) version component unless you're building from a perf
> > development branch.
> > 
> > So to avoid package proliferation the package name should be
> > linux-tools-$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL and the executable filenames should be
> > something like perf_$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL-$subcommand.
> [...]
> 
> Sorry, the executable filename is just perf_$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.  Only
> the manual pages for sub-commands are actually separate files.

Okay, here is a new version. It fits the needs for Debian and Ubuntu
now. I tested the patch on both distributions and with in-tree and
out-of-tree build. The installed packages work fine.