[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1784797] [NEW] Please revert LP:#1738259 (linux-image dependency on microcode)

2018-08-01 Thread Explorer09
Public bug reported: Please revert LP: #1738259 (linux-image dependency on microcode). For Ubuntu 14.04, after the 3.13.0-148 update on the linux-image-generic package, intel-microcode AND amd64-microcode have become a hard dependency on almost every Ubuntu installation. I know this was done for

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1738259] Re: need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

2018-07-02 Thread Explorer09
Look like my comment gets ignored. In short: Please revert this and fix it properly. Don't let linux-image-generic package depend on amd64-microcode or intel-microcode! Change the relationship to "Recommends" instead! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Pack

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1738259] Re: need to ensure microcode updates are available to all bare-metal installs of Ubuntu

2018-05-25 Thread Explorer09
Um, excuse me. When I check the updates on my Ubuntu Trusty machine, I found out it now asks for new install of the amd64-microcode package. May I ask why? My CPU is not AMD's but Intel's, and it seems that amd64-microcode had no use for me. Why does the linux-image-generic package hard depend on i