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

Package:
src:linux
Source:
linux
Submitter:
Axel Beckert
Date:
2022-06-07 15:21:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#1001963#5
Date:
2021-12-19 15:43:42 UTC
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To:
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!
#1001963#10
Date:
2022-06-07 15:18:19 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 src:linux 5.15.5-1