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Re: Please enable udebs for the 6.1 backport



I received the following bug report (#1117674):

On Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:14:38 +0200 Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: linux-6.1
> Version: 6.1.148-1~deb11u1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The Linux 6.1 backports are built with udebs disabled, but it would
> be useful to actually have them built and available even though
> the default Bullseye installer uses 5.10:
> 
> I tried to build a Bullseye netboot image with an initrd including
> the 5.10 kernel modules and the Linux 6.1 kernel for Bullseye.
> 
> Such a d-i image boots fine, but then anna attempts to fetch matching
> udebs from the Debian repos and since src:linux-6.1 build with udebs
> disabled the installer aborts.

While this should be a one-line change in the source package, there is
always some risk in doing this.  And this change doesn't really seem to
be in scope for LTS.

Before replying to the report, I'd like to hear whether the LTS team
generally agrees that with that assessment.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Editing code like this is akin to sticking plasters on the bleeding
stump of a severed limb. - me, 29 June 1999

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