Package: intel-microcode Version: 3.20140913.1~bpo70+1 Severity: important User: cont...@itopie.ch 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: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 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 <h...@debian.org> Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:19:08 -0200 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- 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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