kernel-handbook (1.0.21) unstable; urgency=medium * Try to reduce pain points in rebuilding official kernel packages (Closes: #1022061): - Reorder sections in "Common kernel-related tasks" to reduce confusion - Deprecate older versions of test-patches - Recommend changing ABI name before rebuilding - Add command to enable parallel builds when invoking make directly - Avoid using fakeroot * Remove obsolete text referring to "patchlevels" in source packages * Remove redundant "bash" from debian/bin/test-patches command lines * Update instructions for disabling debug info (Closes: #1023773) * Update instructions for building linux-headers-common package * Update copyright years -- Ben Hutchings Mon, 08 May 2023 23:17:30 +0200 kernel-handbook (1.0.20) unstable; urgency=medium [ Tomasz Warniełło ] * Update Debian version in scope to 10 [ Ben Hutchings ] * Update links to {net,serial} console documentation on www.kernel.org * Correct the filenames where debug-info is enabled in the linux package * Link to lore.kernel.org as preferred mail archive * Makefile: Update name of public pages directory in clean rule * Makefile: Generate Git version in a way that works with GitLab CI variables * d/salsa-ci.yml: Add CI configuration for salsa.debian.org * Makefile, d/salsa-ci.yml: Move pages update to CI * Change URL for kernel Git repository to use HTTP-S * Fix a plaintext HTTP URL in the Japanese translation * Change bisection instructions to include verifying upstream Git tags (Closes: #958559) * Change custom package building examples to use the bindeb-pkg target * Remove documentation of genorig.py's obsolete, insecure tarball support * Add new build-dependencies to bisection instructions * Refer to libncurses-dev instead of the now-transitional libncurses5-dev * Capitalise "Git" outside of command and package names * Update copyright dates * Fix reference to GRUB documentation, and drop reference to LILO * Remove long-outdated reference to binary module packages in the archive * Replace the long explanation of using module-assistant with just "m-a a-i" * Document explicitly how to install module-assistant * Introduce subsections for OOT builds with and without module-assistant * Document DKMS as the preferred method for OOT module builds * Briefly document interaction of Secure Boot with OOT modules * State that Salsa merge requests are now the preferred way to contribute * Include all authors in the contributor list * Revise the bug handling policy: - Remove reference to defunct kerneloops.org site - Remove mention of maintainers analysing oopses - Refer to bug trackers generally, not specifically bugzilla.kernel.org - Mention mail archives as possible existing upstream references - Document when and where a maintainer or submitter should report upstream * Makefile: Generalise translated build target * Disable building of Japanese translation since it is now very incomplete [ Debian Janitor ] * Trim trailing whitespace. * Bump debhelper from old 11 to 12. * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends. -- Ben Hutchings Mon, 03 Oct 2022 01:56:35 +0200 kernel-handbook (1.0.19) unstable; urgency=medium * Point all project/Vcs URLs to Salsa * Direct contributions to the debian-kernel mailing list * Move web site to Gitlab Pages - This limits it to be English only for now * Update URL in "Building a development version of the Debian kernel package" to point to Salsa * Makefile: Always use UTC in document date * Remove version.ent from version control, since it can always be regenerated * Makefile: Use git commit metadata when building from an unreleased version * Makefile: Mark clean and po-update as phony targets * Makefile: Add missing dependencies to sync and language targets * Makefile: Use stamp files to avoid unnecessary rebuilding * Remove redundant text in "Building a custom kernel from the "pristine" kernel source", and refer to the previous section instead * Improve explanation of how to generate the kernel configuration * Note the need to change module signing options when reusing Debian kernel config * Update disk space requirements for rebuilding official Debian kernel packages * debian/copyright: Convert to machine-readable copyright format 1.0 * Makefile: Fix locale in document date to make it reproducible, thanks to Eduard Sanou (Closes: #830922) * debian/control: Update Standards-Version to 4.1.5: - Set Priority: optional - Set Rules-Requires-Root: no * Update the filename where debug-info is enabled in the linux package (Closes: #874635) * Use debhelper compatibility level 11 -- Ben Hutchings Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:34:05 +0800 kernel-handbook (1.0.18) unstable; urgency=medium * Fix spelling errors "neccessary" and "priviliged" (Closes: #818577) * Delete obsolete mention of rebuilding the linux-base package from "Simple patching and building" * Update "Disk space requirements" to reflect that debug info is enabled by default * Remove mention of the "new packaging scheme" that is now 11 years old * Correct description of meta-packages in "Debian kernel packages" chapter * Add linux-signed and linux-image-*-unsigned to "Debian kernel packages" chapter * Update a list of i386 flavours * Correct the description of linux-support packages * Describe linux-headers-*-common* as architecture-independent * Disable po4a-translate's check for minimum translation percentage * Use debhelper compatibility level 9 * debian/control: Update Standards-Version to 3.9.8; no changes needed * Update copyright dates -- Ben Hutchings Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:14:32 +0000 kernel-handbook (1.0.17) unstable; urgency=medium * debian/control: Change Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser to canonical HTTP-S URLs * debian/copyright: Change URL for GPL text to use HTTP-S * Remove 'python' from genorig.py command lines, as this is not needed and is incorrect since it now needs Python 3 * Use changelog date as document date * Convert all source files to DocBook format - Makefile,debian/control: Use xmlto to build from DocBook - Update Japanese translation for the format conversion - Use a richer set of markup elements * Remove statement that the final '.0' will be removed from upstream versions * Update 'Linus version format' to begin with 4 * Remove references to Debian 6.0 and earlier releases, and the linux-2.6 source package * Change examples to use xz compressed files with recent versions, instead of older bzip2 compressed files * Change links to use HTTP-S where possible * Update scope to say we're describing Debian 7 onward * Update copyright dates * Update description of modprobe configuration files * Suggest 'make nconfig' for configuring upstream source -- Ben Hutchings Mon, 07 Mar 2016 02:08:15 +0000 kernel-handbook (1.0.16) unstable; urgency=low [ Uwe Kleine-König ] * Adapt integrity checking to kernel.org only providing signatures for uncompressed archives [ Ben Hutchings ] * Correct order of preparation for rebuilding official Debian kernel packages * Update "Building a development version of the Debian kernel package" for conversion to git [ Ian Campbell ] * Mention unifdef as a dependency for genorig [ Yusuke YATSUO ] * Add Japanese translation (debian-kernel-handbook-ja) -- Ben Hutchings Fri, 14 Aug 2015 12:53:06 +0200 kernel-handbook (1.0.15) unstable; urgency=low [ Jonathan Nieder ] * Fix capitalization in "Applying patches or configuration changes" section * Add a reminder to disable CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO in 'make deb-pkg' examples [ Ben Hutchings ] * Work around debiandoc-sgml bug (#685046) to fix the 'current bug list' link in the 'Filing a bug against a kernel package' section -- Ben Hutchings Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:10:14 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.14) unstable; urgency=low [ Ben Hutchings ] * Remove custom version from 'make deb-pkg' example (Closes: #627838) * Fix introduction to say the handbook describes wheezy (Closes: #651467) * Add a section on disk space requirements for the official'linux' package (Closes: #681550) * Add Vcs-Git control field (Closes: #638479) * Mark as capable of satisfying relations from foreign packages (Multi-Arch: foreign) (Closes: #679204) * Add example of using lsinitramfs command (Closes: #639846) * Fix reference to linux-2.6 in package description [ Jonathan Nieder ] * Explain how to narrow the regression window with "git bisect" when filing bugs (Closes: #627960) -- Ben Hutchings Sat, 21 Jul 2012 22:15:36 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.13) unstable; urgency=low * Note that removed firmware is still packaged; suggested by Karl Goetz * Remove documentation of linux-tree package, removed in squeeze * Remove documentation of linux-patch-debian package, obsoleted by packaging changes and redundant with snapshot.debian.org * Remove documentation of version-specific /etc/modules files, which are no longer supported * Use 3.x version numbers and current flavour and featureset names in examples * Refer to the linux source package rather than linux-2.6 * Remove outdated advice to try disabling ACPI and IRQ routing options * Remove an unnecessary version qualification * Update explanation of source directories for quilted linux package * Update example orig tarball names to indicate xz compression * Update hooks policy description - Debian 6.0 release is now in the past - initramfs-tools is no longer special - squeeze+1 has a name and number * Note that official Linux kernel packages will use only 2 version components in wheezy+1 -- Ben Hutchings Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:03:58 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.12) unstable; urgency=low * Update reference to svn://svn.debian.org; the hostname for anonymous access is now anonscm.debian.org * Update the description of version formats for 3.x -- Ben Hutchings Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:38:34 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.11) unstable; urgency=low * Remove description of yaird and comparison with initramfs-tools * Mention dracut as an experimental initramfs generator * Explain how to build a linux-headers-common package, thanks to Faheem Mitha * Reword a few paragraphs in common-tasks, thanks to Karl Goetz * Bump copyright year for 2011, thanks to Jonathan Nieder * Refer to git repository, replacing the old svn repository (Closes: #627835) -- Ben Hutchings Fri, 01 Jul 2011 05:01:59 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.10) unstable; urgency=low * Explain how to override official kernel configuration and change the ABI name, based in part on text by Faheem Mitha * Explain the differences between upstream versions, package versions and kernel versions * Move 'simplified patching and building' instructions up, since most users should be able to follow these -- Ben Hutchings Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:51:12 +0100 kernel-handbook (1.0.9) unstable; urgency=low * Initial upload to Debian archive - closes: #604713 -- Ben Hutchings Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:08:23 +0000