xtables-addon build with kernel 4.17/4.18 is (still) "not officially supported yet. continue at own luck"

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Building xtables-addons 3 (atm on OpenSUSE Build Service, but the issue's portable) against Kernel 4.18.x currently fails

	https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log/home:pgnd:Kernel:stable/xtables-addons/openSUSE_Leap_15.0/x86_64

		...
		[   51s] checking for xtables >= 1.4.5... yes
		[   51s] checking Xtables module directory... /usr/lib64/xtables
		[   53s] checking kernel version that we will build against... 4.18.0.0 in /usr/src/linux-obj/x86_64/default
		[   53s] WARNING: That kernel version is not officially supported yet. Continue at own luck.
		[   53s] checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
		[   53s] configure: creating ./config.status
		...
		[   60s] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
		...

The error originates from the current kernel version compatiblity check,


	git log | head
		commit 56fba3ecff3c9d623b20ddb7f3e0dd5c092cb965
		Author: Philip Prindeville <philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
		Date:   Mon Apr 30 02:06:05 2018 +0200

		    geoip: simplify handling table column names

		    Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

		commit 9057fb48f3980850eaf909aa8fe8589efec59665
		Author: Philip Prindeville <philipp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


	cat configure.ac

	    if test -z "$kmajor" -o -z "$kminor" -o -z "$kmicro"; then
	        echo "WARNING: Version detection did not succeed. Continue at own luck.";
	    else
	        echo "$kmajor.$kminor.$kmicro.$kstable in $kbuilddir";
60	        if test "$kmajor" -gt 4 -o "$kmajor" -eq 4 -a "$kminor" -gt 16; then
	            echo "WARNING: That kernel version is not officially supported yet. Continue at own luck.";
	        elif test "$kmajor" -eq 4 -a "$kminor" -ge 15; then
	            :
	        else
	            echo "WARNING: That kernel version is not officially supported.";


One can avoid the fail by simply bumping the '$kminor' check, but since there's been apparently no 'official' compat for the entire kernel 4.17 cycle, and now 4.18, even in master-branch source, is there a specific reason not to?

Is xtables-addon still being supported?





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