Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d

From	Roman Lebedev <lebedev.ri@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d
Date	2025-09-24 00:50 +0200
Message-ID	<LyjZE-4yM-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: linux-headers-amd64
Version: 6.16.8-1
Severity: wishlist

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In debian, linux-headers-generic is a virtual package
that is provided by linux-headers-$ARCH.
For reasons, i need to specify a dependency on installed kernel headers
version in a package. I was hoping to do:
```
Depends: linux-headers-generic (>= 6.16)
```
... but that doesn't actually work
because the per-arch packages don't specify which version of
linux-headers-generic they provide, so i have to instead do:
```
Depends: linux-headers-amd64 (>= 6.16) [amd64],
         linux-headers-arm64 (>= 6.16) [ard64],
	 <...>
```
This seems suboptimal. It would be ideal if they could annotate the
version they provide:
```
Provides: linux-headers-generic = (6.12.38-1)
```

Roman.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.16.8+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages linux-headers-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-headers-6.16.8+deb14-amd64  6.16.8-1

linux-headers-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-headers-amd64 suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d Roman Lebedev <lebedev.ri@gmail.com> - 2025-09-24 00:50 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1116120: Please specify version of  linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-09-24 01:20 +0200
  Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-09-24 01:20 +0200
    Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d Roman Lebedev <lebedev.ri@gmail.com> - 2025-09-24 01:40 +0200
  Processed: Re: Bug#1116120: Please specify version of  linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-09-24 01:20 +0200
  Bug#1116120: marked as done (Please specify version of  linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-09-24 09:00 +0200

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