Bug#1001963: linux-image-amd64: Please make "Provides: linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a Linux kernel with ">="

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Package: linux-image-amd64
Version: 5.15.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Please make the Linux image meta-package's "Provides:
linux-image-generic" versioned so that one can depend on a specific
Linux kernel or higher kernel versions with ">=".

Example use case:

hddtemp is made obsolete with Linux' drivetemp driver available since
kernel 5.6, so it would be nice to depend on something like "hddtemp |
linux-image-generic (>= 5.6)" instead of having to iterate over all
architecture-specific variants of the linux-image-* meta-packages.

Thanks in advance!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
ii  linux-image-5.15.0-2-amd64  5.15.5-1

linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.

linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information