git-build-recipe error "No control file to take the package name from" when building linux kernel

[Martin Schläffer]

Exact error message:

"git-build-recipe: error: No control file to take the package name from, and --package not specified."

when building a recipe containing a Ubuntu linux kernel source package:

https://code.launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+recipe/linux-xenial

I guess the recipe is looking for a "debian/control" file while there are debian/control-scripts/* or debian.master/control.* files and directories?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

linux doesn't use normal packaging repositories, so it's not really clear how we can support it. We might have to permit the "run" command in recipes to allow the necessary transformative steps to take place.

[Ryan Govostes (rgov)]

You have to `run fakeroot debian/rules clean` to produce the debian/control file.

git-build-recipe also needs to be patched to pass `--no-lintian` to `debuild` or else there are a lot of linter failures.