[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1120320: Please build a linux-image-zfs metapackage that depends on the latest kernel the current zfs-dkms builds with

[Andras Korn]

Source: zfs-linux
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

now and again it happens that zfs-dkms doesn't yet support the current kernel Debian ships.

If you have linux-image-amd64 installed, a dist-upgrade will try to install the latest kernel, which will then fail to configure (and, if your root is on zfs, the next reboot with the latest kernel will fail).

To avoid this, it would nice to have a metapackage just like linux-image-amd64 (and one like linux-headers-amd64) that doesn't depend on the latest Debian kernel, but instead the latest Debian kernel zfs-dkms works with.

Us zfs users could then install that metapackage instead of linux-{image,headers}-amd64.

Thanks!

András

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Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers stable-security
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-security'), (350, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.12.41+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
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