diff --git a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
index 0aa0d9447..b10e15edd 100644
--- a/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
+++ b/Documentation/Developers/CHANGELOG-RENE
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
                    added new lilo config optionsm, added stone to the
                    2nd_stage_small incl. further space optimizations, cleanup
                    of some stone modules and a shell gasgui implementation
-
+ - fixed linux24-src for treever non-numeric content (e.g. linux24benh-src)
 
 *) 2003-09-07 (2.0.0-rc1 - 2.0.0-rc2)
 
diff --git a/package/base/linux24-src/linux24-src.conf b/package/base/linux24-src/linux24-src.conf
index f4052120c..433f72a3a 100644
--- a/package/base/linux24-src/linux24-src.conf
+++ b/package/base/linux24-src/linux24-src.conf
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ main_lx_src() {
 	cp -v .config_modules ../linux$treever-patches/config_modules.txt
 
 	# can fail in stage 0-1 ...
-	if [ $stagelevel -gt 1 -a $treever -le 24 ] ; then
-		echo "Creating dependencies ..."
+	if [ $stagelevel -gt 1 ] && [[ $treever = 24* ]] ; then
+		echo "Creating dependencies (e.g. for versioned symbols) ..."
 		eval $MAKE dep-files
 	fi