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Bug#960209: linux: please provide image and header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture

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  Bug#960209: linux: please provide image and header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> - 2020-05-10 18:50 +0200
    Bug#960209: Provide linux-{image,headers}-default virtual packages on most architectures Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-08-25 17:00 +0200
    Bug#960209: marked as done (linux: please provide image and  header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2020-09-19 18:10 +0200

#67055 — Bug#960209: linux: please provide image and header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture

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Source: linux
Version: 5.6.7-1
Severity: wishlist

It's very difficult to write architecture independent code in Debian for
image-generation and other kernel-related tasks due to missing meta packages
that can be used. For example:

- in image generation code, we need to have a hardcoded list of kernel packages per
  architecture. e.g. autopkgtest-build-qemu(1) from autopkgtest has
  this:

  case "$architecture" in
    (armhf)
      kernel=linux-image-armmp
      ;;
    (hppa)
      kernel=linux-image-parisc
      ;;
    (i386)
      case "$release" in
        (jessie)
          kernel=linux-image-586
          ;;
        (*)
          kernel=linux-image-686
          ;;
      esac
      ;;
    (ppc64)
      kernel=linux-image-powerpc64
      ;;
    (*)
      kernel="linux-image-$architecture"
      ;;
  esac

  I'm sure there are several instances of similar code around the
  archive.

- in dkms, it's not possible to have the correct dependencies to get
  kernel headers. See for example #959976 in autodep8.

Please provide generic metapackages that can be used to get the current
linux image and headers on each architecture. Those could be called
linux-image and linux-headers (plus variants like -cloud, -rt etc).

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

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

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#67873 — Bug#960209: Provide linux-{image,headers}-default virtual packages on most architectures

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I opened a merge request to implement this:
https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/264

There are a couple of open questions there.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If God had intended Man to program,
we'd have been born with serial I/O ports.

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#68177 — Bug#960209: marked as done (linux: please provide image and header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture)

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Your message dated Sat, 19 Sep 2020 16:02:01 +0000
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and subject line Bug#960209: fixed in linux 5.8.10-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #960209,
regarding linux: please provide image and header metapackages that have the same name on every architecture
to be marked as done.

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