man make-kpkg not uptodate

[buhtz]

I am using Kubuntu 12.10 32bit in a german version.

The man-page (german) of make-kpkg is from 2002 and have one wrong and some incomplete informations.
I don't know how to check the original english version of the man-page to check if it is a translation or a generel problem.

1. wrong information
The man-page tell that there is a need to run make-kpkg as root (what is extrem risky!), with fakeroot or to tell him by parameter how to become (fakeroot) root.

I tested it myself. From userside there is no need to tell make-kpkg how to become root or to run it as (fake)root. Because make-kpkg handle it for itself. I checked it. All files in my created deb are with root-rights without running make-kpkg as (fake)root.
Just cancle this infor.

2. missing and incomplite configuration
Two usual usecases for make-kpkg:
a) The configuration of the kernel is completely missing.
b) The configuration is from an older kernel-version and some new-options there are unset. So the config is incomplete.
How does make-kpkg behave in such situations? The man-page-described behaviour is unclear and maybe wrong. (I need more time to test it myself.)
The author or code-maintainer should be contacted to clearing this questions and bring the man-page to a real state.

[buhtz (buhtz)]

I opend a bug-report in the debian-system.
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704116>

Sorry for confusing. I am not sure, but this bug here can then be closed?

[buhtz (buhtz)]

Please close.