Kernel Packaging

With the posting of 2.6.30-rc4-ce1200v-412 there are some changes:

*) That kernel, and all future kernels are built with the 32bit/Gentoo, GNU/GCC-4.1.2 compiler.
*) The packaging is now being built by the kernel build system's deb-pkg target - which means:

The scripting in the package is intended to be "generic" to distributions using the deb packaging.
This means the initrd image is not automatically built.

The kernel package is the same across the distributions using the deb packaging;
The initrd image *is not* - it contains distribution specific scripting;
The initrd image *may* contain additional, local, modifications; such as modules to be loaded at boot time.
Those packages are listed in: /etc/initramfs-tools/modules by the user (or the distribution).

As a result, the user which installs one of these more recent packages, must run update-initramfs themselves.
An example:

update-initramfs -c -k 2.6.30-rc4-ce1200v-412

To get the kernel name for that command, just look at its file name in /boot - use the same name for
the -k option beginning with the version number. 
(The same name as the module directory under /lib/modules, the "-k" option actually takes the module directory name.)