Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1948669
Title:
linux-image-generic should suggest linux-firmware instead of depending
on it
Status in linux-meta package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Hello,
At the moment, the only way to install linux-modules-extra and keep it
up-to-date is to rely on linux-image-generic:
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
# apt-cache policy linux-image-generic
linux-image-generic:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 5.4.0.89.93
Version table:
5.4.0.89.93 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64
Packages
5.4.0.26.32 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages
# apt rdepends linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-89-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-89-generic
Reverse Depends:
Depends: linux-image-generic
However, installing linux-image-generic pulls linux-firmware:
# apt depends linux-image-generic
linux-image-generic
Depends: linux-image-5.4.0-89-generic
Depends: linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-89-generic
Depends: linux-firmware
Depends: intel-microcode
Depends: amd64-microcode
Recommends: thermald
I specifically need linux-modules-extra because it contains the r8169
module which some Ethernet controllers require. The driver doesn't
need any of the firmware blobs but because of the way it is packaged,
I end up creating Ubuntu installations several hundred megabytes
larger than necessary (in my case, these extra megabytes do matter).
The initramfs also gains a few dozen megabytes.
Would it please be possible to either:
- mark linux-firmware as "Recommends" instead of "Depends"?
- create a metapackage that pulls only the latest version of
linux-modules-extra and nothing else?
In addition, I'm not 100% sure linux-modules-extra should have a hard
dependency on crda or wireless-crda, maybe they could also be marked
as recommended instead?
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