[Aptitude-devel] Bug#916927: aptitude: should consistently choose between signed and unsigned kernels

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.19.9-1

On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:26:55 +0100 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After an upgrade of linux-image-amd64, which now depends on
> linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64, on one machine I got:
> 
>   linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64 4.19.9-1
> 
> but on another machine I got:
> 
>   linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned 4.19.9-1

The issue is that linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned has
  Provides: linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64

So if linux-image-amd64 starts depending on linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64
before the signed version is present, apt will install the unsigned
version.  This doesn't look like a bug in apt to me.

The easiest way to avoid this would be to drop the Provides from the
unsigned image.  Is there any downside for doing so?

Ansgar