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Sedat Dilek committed d9f711db834
builddeb: Try to determine distribution lsb_release command is a good choice to determine the distribution name for the changelog file in the generated Debian packages [1]. Its installation is no precondition. In Debian it is still not essential or build-essential. Ben gave some helpful informations and detailed explanations in [2]. There he also suggested to have an option to explicitly set the distribution name (see $KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST variable). Embedded the improvement as suggested by Thorsten (see [3]): "This is suboptimal: if KDEB_CHANGELOG_DIST is defined, lsb_release is not necessary. The following snippet also omits using its output if it fails but still produces any:" Dealing with this issue I learned about "The Colon in the Shell." and possible pitfalls in this area (see [4,5]). Furthermore, refreshed my knowledge about redirecting outputs with the echo command (see [5]). Special thanks to Thorsten, I enjoyed the IRC session with you. Cooked together the snippets of Ben and Thorsten (see [2,3]). Tested against Linux v3.19-rc2. Thanks goes to Alexander, Ben, maximilian and Thorsten for the very vital help. [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/23/516 [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142022188322321&w=2 [3] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kbuild&m=142023476825460&w=2 [4] http://blog.brlink.eu/index.html#i70 [5] https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20141209-tg.htm [6] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23489934/echo-2-some-text-what-does-it-mean-in-shell-scripting CC: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> Suggested-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Suggested-by: Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.org> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Acked-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> [ dileks: Reviewed his suggested diff in RFC v4 ] Reviewed-by: Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>