Bug#1001963: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides: linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel with ">="

From	Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1001963: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides: linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel with ">="
Date	2021-12-19 16:50 +0100
Message-ID	<Dw6BH-7Vp-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 5.15.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Please make the Linux image meta-package's "Provides:
linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a specific
Linux kernel or higher kernel versions with ">=".

Example use case:

hddtemp is made obsolete with Linux' drivetemp driver available since
kernel 5.6, so it would be nice to depend on something like "hddtemp |
linux-image-generic (>= 5.6)" instead of having to iterate over all
architecture-specific variants of the linux-image-* meta-packages.

Thanks in advance!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-5.15.0-2-amd64  5.15.5-1

linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Bug#1001963: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides: linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel with ">=" Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> - 2021-12-19 16:50 +0100
  Bug#1001963: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides: linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel with ">=" Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2022-06-07 17:30 +0200
  Processed: Re: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides:  linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel  with ">=" "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2022-06-07 17:30 +0200

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