[Pkg-xen-devel] the EXTRAVERSION problem in dh-kpatches...

[Ralph Passgang]

... is actually old & very well known by the maintainer!

there is a bug report for exactly this that is 3 years and 124 days old!
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=165505

I can also add my report to this bug and mention that we need a fixed version 
for our xen packages, but as it looks for me (at the moment) the maintainer 
is not really interessted in getting this "fixed".

--Ralph

P.s.: If we don't remove the EXTRAVERSION from our xen patch, then the exactly 
error message is:

...
dh_install -p xen-docs -X examples 
--sourcedir=/home/ralphp/build/xen-3.0.1/debian/install
dh_installdocs
dh_installchangelogs
dh_installkpatches
Diff file changes EXTRAVERSION: debian/linux-2.6.12-xen.patch 
at /usr/bin/dh_installkpatches line 99.
make: *** [binary] Error 255