[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#849420: zfs-dkms: Provide metapackage for most recent supported kernel?

[Nikolaus Rath]

Package: zfs-dkms
Version: 0.6.5.8-1~bpo8+1
Severity: normal

Hello,

As far as I can tell, zfs support for the jessie-backports kernel
generally comes a little after the kernel itself lands in
jessie-backports. This means that it's very hard to track the backports
kernel and use zfs - either one has to manually vet (and delay) every
kernel upgrade, or one has to live with ZFS being unavailable for a
while after each upgrade.

Would it be possible to provide a metapackage that always depends on the
most recent backports kernel that also supports ZFS? That would solve
the problem nicely...

Best,
-Nikolaus