Hi, Quoting Christian Kastner (2025-12-10 08:55:05) > On 2025-12-10 01:53, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > On Debian, linux-image-generic is a virtual package provided by the > > architecture-specific meta-packages like linux-image-arm64. On Ubuntu, > > linux-image-generic is a meta-package which then depends on, for example > > linux-image-6.17.0-5-generic which is the same package that would've been > > pulled in by installing linux-image-virtual. > > > > Is there a reason to use the Ubuntu-specific linux-image-virtual if > > linux-image-generic which seems to work for both distros seems to do the > > same > > thing? > I wasn't aware that both Ubuntu and Debian both had linux-image-generic. > It looks as if this would indeed simplify things. > > However autopkgtest aims to support releases going far back, and at > least stretch doesn't have linux-image-generic yet. I couldn't check > buster because I've stumbled into image problems; bullseye seems to have it. > > I guess for bullseye+ and the equivalent in Ubuntu, linux-image-generic could > be proposed? Would you like to do this, or would you prefer I do it?
Proposed? You mean to autopkgtest itself? There is prior art for using linux-image-generic in debvm: https://sources.debian.org/src/debvm/0.5.0/share/debvm/customize-kernel.sh#L111 Thanks! cheers, josch
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