[Debian Package]Regression 6.3-rc3: version is empty for linux-headers installation dir

From: David Wang
Date: Mon Mar 20 2023 - 03:36:35 EST


When make a clean build for debian packages, with 6.3-rc3, there is no version information in the name of linux-headers dir, the linux-headers package would install into "/usr/src/linux-headers-".

This is caused by 36862e14e31611f9786622db366327209a7aede7 which remove the definition for "version" in scripts/package/builddeb

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index 906889b304a4..c5ae57167d7c 100755
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
...

-version=$KERNELRELEASE
--


But the variable is need for building linux-headers:
scripts/package/builddeb
188 destdir=$pdir/usr/src/linux-headers-$version
189 mkdir -p $destdir


This could be fixed by adding back the definition for version

diff --git a/scripts/package/builddeb b/scripts/package/builddeb
index c5ae57167d7c..1870b2485217 100755
--- a/scripts/package/builddeb
+++ b/scripts/package/builddeb
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ install_libc_headers () {
rm -f debian/files

packages_enabled=$(dh_listpackages)
+version=$KERNELRELEASE

for package in ${packages_enabled}
do
--



Davud