The patch titled Subject: builddeb: remove debian/files before build has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: builddeb: remove debian/files before build As debian/files keeps accumulating entries, the changes file will end up growing indefinelty. Remove the file in clean rule and before build starts. Fixes: 3716001bcb7f ("deb-pkg: add source package") Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx> Cc: maximilian attems <maks@xxxxxxx> Cc: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/package/builddeb | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/package/builddeb~builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build scripts/package/builddeb --- a/scripts/package/builddeb~builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build +++ a/scripts/package/builddeb @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ esac BUILD_DEBUG="$(grep -s '^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y' $KCONFIG_CONFIG || true)" # Setup the directory structure -rm -rf "$tmpdir" "$fwdir" "$kernel_headers_dir" "$libc_headers_dir" "$dbg_dir" +rm -rf "$tmpdir" "$fwdir" "$kernel_headers_dir" "$libc_headers_dir" "$dbg_dir" $objtree/debian/files mkdir -m 755 -p "$tmpdir/DEBIAN" mkdir -p "$tmpdir/lib" "$tmpdir/boot" mkdir -p "$fwdir/lib/firmware/$version/" @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ binary-arch: \$(MAKE) KDEB_SOURCENAME=${sourcename} KDEB_PKGVERSION=${packageversion} bindeb-pkg clean: - rm -rf debian/*tmp + rm -rf debian/*tmp debian/files mv debian/ debian.backup # debian/ might be cleaned away \$(MAKE) clean mv debian.backup debian _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from riku.voipio@xxxxxxxxxx are builddeb-remove-debian-files-before-build.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html