Hi Sedat, Sorry for my late replay. On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 6:56 PM Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [ CC linux-kbuild folks (see [0] ] Can you give me more context of this email? > Hi, > > I am using Debian/unstable AMD64 and doing Linux-kernel upstream > development and testing. > > People using bindeb-pkg (mkdebian) from Linux-kernel sources > (scripts/packages) to build and test their selfmade Debian kernels get > a now a "n/a" for distribution. Right, if I try the latest sid, "lsb_release -cs" returns "n/a". It returned "sid" before IIRC. What was changed in Debian? Any change in the lsb_release program? > > Background (see [1]): > > [ scripts/package/mkdebian ] > > # Try to determine distribution > if [ -n "$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST" ]; then > distribution=$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST > # In some cases lsb_release returns the codename as n/a, which breaks > dpkg-parsechangelog > elif distribution=$(lsb_release -cs 2>/dev/null) && [ -n > "$distribution" ] && [ "$distribution" != "n/a" ]; then > : # nothing to do in this case > else > distribution="unstable" > echo >&2 "Using default distribution of 'unstable' in the changelog" > echo >&2 "Install lsb-release or set \$KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST explicitly" > fi > > Personally, I set hardcoded in my kernel build-script as a workaround: > > distribution="bookworm" > > Gioele suggested me to enrich /etc/os-release with: > > VERSION_ID=unstable <--- XXX: I prefer sid because of PRETTY_NAME and > it's shorter > VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm > > In the end the file looks like: > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > ID=debian > VERSION_ID=sid > VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm > HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; > SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; > BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; > > ...and this seems to work: > > # lsb_release -cs > No LSB modules are available. > bookworm > > Please, provide a solution not to break workflows that were successful > for years. > > Thanks. > > Best regards, > -Sedat- > > [0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/MAINTAINERS#n11005 > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/package/mkdebian#n123 -- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
