On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 04:01:33AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > The version number with -rc should be considered older than the final
> > release.
> >
> > For example, 6.14-rc1 should be older than 6.14, but to handle this
> > correctly (just like Debian kernel), "-rc" must be replace with "~rc".
> >
> > $ dpkg --compare-versions 6.14-rc1 lt 6.14
> > $ echo $?
> > 1
> > $ dpkg --compare-versions 6.14~rc1 lt 6.14
> > $ echo $?
> > 0
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > ---
> >
> > scripts/package/mkdebian | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/scripts/package/mkdebian b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > index 193e33bcb989..80ed96561993 100755
> > --- a/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > +++ b/scripts/package/mkdebian
> > @@ -167,7 +167,9 @@ version=$KERNELRELEASE
> > if [ "${KDEB_PKGVERSION:+set}" ]; then
> > packageversion=$KDEB_PKGVERSION
> > else
> > - packageversion=$(${srctree}/scripts/setlocalversion --no-local ${srctree})-$($srctree/scripts/build-version)
> > + upstream_version=$("${srctree}/scripts/setlocalversion" --no-local "${srctree}" | sed 's/-\(rc[1-9]\)/~\1/')
>
> I don't think there has ever been an -rc10 but would it hurt to make it
> [1-9]+?
The current code should work with -rc10 as well.
$ echo 6.14-rc10 | sed 's/-\(rc[1-9]\)/~\1/'
6.14~rc10
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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
