[Bug 1607845] Re: List of versioned kernels is not right for Ubuntu

[David Kalnischkies]

btw: "apt-cache pkgnames" should have better/quicker result than
searching.

Don't know what that goldfish is nor am I particular interested in
cloud, but I guess they could be added if there is need/interest. Its
not like there is any real cost attached to it and false positives are
pretty unlikely with the kernel versions attached… in the case of
goldfish it seems to be unneeded through as they have "normally" named
images/headers packages, too, which depend on the strange ones, so the
autoremover wouldn't kick in anyhow for those.

kfreebsd, gnumach (= hurd) do not share the same version, they do share
the kernel postinst scripts which apt is using here through, so even
through they use entirely different version schemes, its still a version
we can work with. Excluding specific items depending on the architecture
we built apt for would be possible, but not really worth the
implementation effort I presume.

And yes, -modules/-kernel is for out-of-tree modules as created by
module-assistant (from -source packages), but I think dkms can built
packages, too, and its the naming scheme which tends to be used for
packages for modules which happen to be distributable as binary builds…
(not that there would be many).

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Title:
  List of versioned kernels is not right for Ubuntu

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The following command outputs the list:
  $ apt-config dump --no-empty --format '%v%n' 'APT::VersionedKernelPackages'
  linux-image
  linux-headers
  linux-image-extra
  linux-signed-image
  kfreebsd-image
  kfreebsd-headers
  gnumach-image
  .*-modules
  .*-kernel
  linux-backports-modules-.*
  linux-tools

  but the list does not 'contain linux-.*-tools' and 'linux-goldfish-
  headers', which are versioned kernel packages as well, if I have
  understood correctly.

  On the other hand are these values appropriate for Ubuntu?
  kfreebsd-image
  kfreebsd-headers
  gnumach-image
  .*-modules
  .*-kernel

  Same thing for Ubuntu 14.04.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-31.50-generic 4.4.13
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-31-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Fri Jul 29 18:55:50 2016
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-21 (250 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-24 (35 days ago)

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