[PATCH 1/1] UBUNTU: update to standards version 3.8.4.0

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Update from standards versions 3.6.1 to 3.8.4.0.  The following items
> seem to be the only ones which could apply to the kernel in its current
> form, comments inline:
> 
>   3.8.2.0
>   --------
> 
>   Released Jun 2009.
> 
>   + *2.4*: The list of archive sections has been significantly expanded.  See
>     [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/03/msg00010.html]
>     for the list of new sections and rules for how to categorize
>     packages.
> 
> Confirmed that the sections correctly match the archive overrides.
> 
>   3.8.1.0
>   --------
> 
>   Released  Mar 2009.
> 
>   + *4.9.1*: New nocheck option for DEB\_BUILD\_OPTIONS indicating any build-time
>     test suite provided by the package should not be run.
> 
> We have no test-suite for the built kernel, so this does not actually
> apply.  The only tests we have are configuration tests.
> 
>   3.7.3.0
>   --------
> 
>   Released  Dec 2007.
> 
>   + *12.5*: GFDL 1.2, GPL 3, and LGPL 3 are now in common-licenses and should
>     be referenced rather than quoted in `debian/copyright'.
> 
> The copyright has already been updated to reference the common GPL-2
> version.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> ---
>  debian.master/control.stub.in |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/debian.master/control.stub.in b/debian.master/control.stub.in
> index d41b2dd..96fb75a 100644
> --- a/debian.master/control.stub.in
> +++ b/debian.master/control.stub.in
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: linux
>  Section: devel
>  Priority: optional
>  Maintainer: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com>
> -Standards-Version: 3.6.1
> +Standards-Version: 3.8.4.0
>  Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 3), cpio, module-init-tools, kernel-wedge (>= 2.24ubuntu1), makedumpfile [amd64 i386 lpia], device-tree-compiler [powerpc]
>  Build-Depends-Indep: xmlto, docbook-utils, gs, transfig, bzip2, sharutils
>  Build-Conflicts: findutils (= 4.4.1-1ubuntu1)

This reminds me, I've been meaning to research a way to by-pass the
lintian phase at the end of the build (for development builds anyways).
Its an enormous waste of time for the folks not working on packaging.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com