Debian package build from upstream source need git repo?? Failing...

[Bhaskar Chowdhury]

Hey,
While building the customary kernel from from source with my frivolous script
and it is now failing with this error:

/usr/bin/make -f ./scripts/Makefile.package deb-pkg
# GEN     debian
  ./scripts/package/mkdebian --need-source
  error: creating source package requires git repository
  make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.package:40: check-git] Error 1
  make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
  warning: Not a git repository. Use --no-index to compare two paths outside a
  working tree

 I can vividly remember that it was working fine few months back...in fact
 building the 6.2.2 kernel. I am certainly missing the updated information of
 change. The damn script just untar the tarball and build.

 Masahiro?? Git repo requirement is mandatory to build from source, why? Was
 it the case??

 Or I probably doing something horrendous, but I can assure you that I haven't
 change a single word in my script, as I mentioned it works file with last
 release build.

 Please shed some light.
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Thanks,
Bhaskar

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