This reverts commit b052ce4c840e ("kbuild: fix false positive -dirty tag caused by make-kpkg"). If I understand correctly, it occurred in very old versions of make-kpkg. When I tried a newer version, make-kpkg did not touch scripts/package/Makefile. Anyway, Debian uses 'make deb-pkg' instead of make-kpkg these days. Debian handbook [1] mentions it as "the good old days": "CULTURE The good old days of kernel-package Before the Linux build system gained the ability to build proper Debian packages, the recommended way to build such packages was to use make-kpkg from the kernel-package package." [1]: https://debian-handbook.info/browse/stable/sect.kernel-compilation.html Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/setlocalversion | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/setlocalversion b/scripts/setlocalversion index 879cba956e60..f3084d6bbb22 100755 --- a/scripts/setlocalversion +++ b/scripts/setlocalversion @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ scm_version() if { git --no-optional-locks status -uno --porcelain 2>/dev/null || git diff-index --name-only HEAD - } | grep -qvE '^(.. )?scripts/package'; then + } | read dummy; then printf '%s' -dirty fi fi -- 2.27.0