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has caused the Debian Bug report #770761,
regarding intel-microcode: should Depends: on the first working linux-image
version (e.g. backports)
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Package: intel-microcode
Version: 3.20140913.1~bpo70+1
Severity: important
User: [email protected]
Usertags: debian-packaging
Hi there,
while installing a new Debian wheezy following our internal
instructions[1] that worked flawlessly in the past, I was quite
surprised by the error message about not supported kernel appeared
during the intel-microcode installation.
[1] <https://docs.itopie.ch/installation/debian>
Anyway, I rebooted and since there was still no intel-microcode loaded I
checked the debian/changelog:
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intel-microcode (3.20140913.1~bpo70+1) wheezy-backports; urgency=medium
* Rebuild for wheezy-backports (no changes)
* THIS PACKAGE REQUIRES LINUX KERNEL 3.10 OR LATER, YOU MUST USE A
BACKPORTED OR CUSTOM KERNEL. If you use the regular Debian stable
(wheezy) kernel (Linux 3.2), please use the stable (wheezy)
intel-microcode package.
-- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:19:08
-0200
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I am sorry, but I see two important errors here:
1) the default apt-listchanges/which debconf value is news, which means
that on upgrades the above message is not shown, instead it should
have been added to debian/NEWS.
2) AFAIK, if a backport package needs a feature of another backport
package to work on a stable installation, than the second package
should be a Depends:.
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages intel-microcode depends on:
ii iucode-tool 1.1-1~bpo70+1
Versions of packages intel-microcode recommends:
ii initramfs-tools 0.109.1
intel-microcode suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: intel-microcode/3.20140913.1~bpo70+2
Changes:
Ready changelog for Debian backports release: 3.20140913.1~bpo70+2
.
* NEWS.Debian: tweak for backports and force redisplay:
Work around possible issue in apt-listbugs, by bumping the NEWS
entry version, and a minor change to the text (closes: #770761)
* control: depends on initramfs-tools instead of recommends:
Ignoring the versioned "recommends" will cause intel-microcode to
fail to generate an early initramfs image, and issue a cryptic
error message (the hook doesn't know why we failed to prepend the
early initramfs image). For the backport versions, switch to
"depends". For jessie/sid, this is less grave as you either have
a new enough initramfs-tools, or none at all. Document this in
NEWS.Debian for the backported version.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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