Bug#534348: Choose the right module for running kernel when pulling in "-modules" virtual packages

["Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.21
Severity: wishlist

Thanks for all your work on APT.  Here's a bug:

Current behavior:  I have automatic installation of recommends
enabled.  When I install a package, like virtualbox or hdapsd, that
recommends a '-modules' virtual package with multiple possibilities in
it, my package manager pulls in the possibility that comes first in
alphabetical order.  This is usually a -486 modules package, even
though I use a -686 kernel.  So it wants to pull in a -486 modules
package and a -486 kernel.

Requested behavior:  Please modify apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic so
they make the right choice when pulling in "-modules" virtual
packages:  in my case, the -686 modules package.

Screenshot:
[j@pequeno ~]$ sudo apt-get install hdapsd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 tp-smapi-modules-2.6.26-2-486
Suggested packages:
  linux-doc-2.6.26
Recommended packages:
  tp-smapi-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hdapsd linux-image-2.6.26-2-486 tp-smapi-modules-2.6.26-2-486
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 20.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 60.0MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

What's wrong with screenshot:  I don't want it to pull in a -486
modules package or a -486 kernel.