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  1. Focal (20.04)
  2. Bug #2059143
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Comment 0 for bug 2059143

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Roxana Nicolescu (roxanan) wrote :

SRU Justification

[Impact]
Having a common file for dkms-versions between main kernels and derivatives causes a lot of conflicts during rebase.
Solution is to have a dkms-versions per kernels, under debian.<derivative>/dkms-version.

While at it, instead of running ./update-dkms-version script, cranky update-dkms-versions was introduced.

[Fix]
This is needed only in the main kernels.
1. remove update-dkms-version script
2. rename debian/dkms-version with debian.master/dkms-versions
3. Replace debian/dkms-versions references in debian scripts and rules with $(DEBIAN)/dkms-versions

Note for derivatives: These changes will be inherited from the parent during cranky rebase.
The only change to the cranky process is: instead of using ./update-dkms-versions
script, cranky-update-dkms-versions should be used

[Test]
Build test on cbd. No issue found.

[Regression pottential]
Owners have tried this last cycle in derivatives and no issues were found.
We may see build failures due to wrong dkms versions, but it will be fixed along the way.