Good morning, 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? Best, Christian
