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Bug#918664: marked as done (linux-latest: please provide a meta package for a sane architecture-specific default)

Your message dated Sat, 26 Oct 2019 07:08:48 +0000
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regarding linux-latest: please provide a meta package for a sane architecture-specific default
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--- Begin Message --- 
Source: linux-latest
Version: 4.17+95
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

please provide an architecture-specific meta package which depends on a
sane default of a kernel image on that architecture.

For example:

Package: linux-image
Depends: linux-image-powerpc64 [ppc64],
         linux-image-parisc [hppa],
         linux-image-armmp [armhf],
         linux-image-686 [i386],
         ...

I know that the right kernel image is not a function of the Debian
architecture alone. But this meta-package is not supposed to replace
kernel selection for d-i or the like. It is meant to be one central
place to encode a sane default mapping in the Debian linux kernel
package instead of (poorly) replicating such a mapping in individual
packages.

Examples:

    https://sources.debian.org/src/autopkgtest/5.7/tools/autopkgtest-build-qemu/?hl=118#L100
    https://sources.debian.org/src/supermin/5.1.19-4/debian/control/?hl=26#L17
    https://sources.debian.org/src/live-build/1:20180925/scripts/build/installer_debian-installer/?hl=330#L317
    https://sources.debian.org/src/fai/5.7.3/conf/NFSROOT/?hl=64#L49
    https://sources.debian.org/src/propellor/5.5.0-2/src/Propellor/Property/Machine.hs/?hl=192#L186
    https://sources.debian.org/src/libguestfs/1:1.38.6-2/debian/control/?hl=53#L52
    https://sources.debian.org/src/nbdkit/1.8.2-1/debian/control/?hl=25#L23
    https://sources.debian.org/src/python-diskimage-builder/2.16.0-1/diskimage_builder/elements/debian-minimal/package-installs.yaml/?hl=3#L1
    https://sources.debian.org/src/debootstick/2.1/scripts/create-image/target/pc/packages/?hl=11#L14

I stumbled across this problem because I was about to write some similar
logic in my own upstream project mmdebstrap. I thought that instead,
such a default mapping from Debian architecture to sensible linux kernel
image default should live in the linux-latest source package.

Thanks!

cheers, josch

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 107+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package linux-latest has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/943361

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

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