Rick Moen - 21.11.18, 00:02:
> Quoting Harald Arnesen (skogtun@???):
> > Why not just use "make deb-pkg" from the kernel source tree?
>
> I'm a little unclear on whether this is a suggestion, ot a question,
> or both, or a suggestion disguised as a question. ;->
>
> Yesterday when I posted upthread, I had just then learned that
> make-kpkg(1) had come to be deprecated. My longstanding workflow for
> building kernel packages, to date, has been built around that nice
> Debian tool. Probably it won't after eventual rearchitecting. I've
> had other things occuping my time, so this is an area where the 'This
> Toolchain Works, So Don't Fix It' principle had been in operation.
>
> I'll get to evaluating and probably migrating over to The Slightly
> Shiny in the fullness of time. (Yes, I'd been aware of 'make
> deb-pkg' from the kernel guys, but hadn't used it because what I had
> in place already met my needs.)

AFAIK make-kpkg from kernel-package has been deprecated since a long
time, easily more than year or to already. I just did not care so far.
It works just the way I like it… so I intend to continue to use it for
as long as it does. Which may be years to come.

--
Martin