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

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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

#89376 — Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d

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.

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#89377 — Processed: Re: Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d

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Bug #1116120 [linux-headers-amd64] Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d
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1116120: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116120
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On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 01:40:46AM +0300, Roman Lebedev wrote:
> 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:

Please explain what you are trying to do.  There is no real way to
depend on Linux headers and expect it to get something working.

Bastian

-- 
Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more
sheer horror than the male of the species.
		-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4

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On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 2:09 AM Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 01:40:46AM +0300, Roman Lebedev wrote:
> > 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:
>
> Please explain what you are trying to do.  There is no real way to
> depend on Linux headers and expect it to get something working.
Pretty much all software has specific requirements on versions of
it's dependencies that are required for the software to be built.

In case of things such as dkms modules, it's the version of kernel headers,
and that is precisely what i was hoping to codify,
only to discover that i then must manually enumerate
each per-arch headers package.

Does that answer the question?

PS: it's apparently `Provides: <name> (= <version>)`, with braces.

> Bastian
Roman.

> --
> Women are more easily and more deeply terrified ... generating more
> sheer horror than the male of the species.
>                 -- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4

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#89379 — Processed: Re: Bug#1116120: Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d

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Bug #1116120 [linux-headers-amd64] Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d
Added tag(s) moreinfo.

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1116120: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1116120
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#89387 — Bug#1116120: marked as done (Please specify version of linux-headers-generic that is being `Provide:`d)

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