On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 11:08 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I do not think it is a big deal because the version 1.18.8 > was released in 2016. > > Best Regards > Masahiro Yamada Even in spite of being documented that way the long option --rules-file was fixed to behave the way it currently does in the commit 5cd52673aabdf5eaa58181972119a41041fc85f2 of dpkg dated dated 23.07.18 and become available starting 1.19.1. That might cause build failures for some versions newer than 1.18.8. I faced dpkg-buildpackage: error: unknown option or argument --rules-file when building the Kernel using Debian dpkg-buildpackage version 1.19.0.5 having no errors for --jobs. To avoid such inconsistencies I think it might be useful to apply short options that are guaranteed to be available starting 1.14.7.
