Bug#916927: aptitude: should consistently choose between signed and unsigned kernels

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#916927: aptitude: should consistently choose between signed and unsigned kernels
Date	2018-12-20 19:10 +0100
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On Thu, 2018-12-20 at 16:51 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.19.9-1
> 
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:26:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > After an upgrade of linux-image-amd64, which now depends on
> > linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64, on one machine I got:
> > 
> >   linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64 4.19.9-1
> > 
> > but on another machine I got:
> > 
> >   linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned 4.19.9-1
> 
> The issue is that linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned has
>   Provides: linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64
> 
> So if linux-image-amd64 starts depending on linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64
> before the signed version is present, apt will install the unsigned
> version.  This doesn't look like a bug in apt to me.
> 
> The easiest way to avoid this would be to drop the Provides from the
> unsigned image.  Is there any downside for doing so?

I was under the impression that packages built by module-assistant
generally depended on the corresponding kernel package.  Either this
changed at some point or I misremembered.

Since the signing service seems to be reliable I don't see any good
reason to actually use the unsigned packages, so I think the Provides
could safely be removed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is impossible to make anything foolproof
because fools are so ingenious.

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Bug#916927: aptitude: should consistently choose between signed and unsigned kernels Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> - 2018-12-20 17:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: aptitude: should consistently choose between  signed and unsigned kernels "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2018-12-20 17:00 +0100
  Bug#916927: aptitude: should consistently choose between signed and unsigned kernels Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2018-12-20 19:10 +0100

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