Source: base-installer
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I got asked this while working on the arm64 installer:
        Install the base system
        -----------------------

        The list shows the available kernels. Please choose one of them in 
order to 
        make the system bootable from the hard drive.
        Kernel to install:
          1: linux-image-3.14-2-arm64 [*],      3: none,    
          2: linux-image-3.14-2-arm64-dbg,    
        Prompt: '?' for help, default=1> 

And adding a simple case to the test suite shows the issue for amd64 too, I
suspect all arches have this issue:

        diff --git a/kernel/tests/amd64/cittagazze.test 
b/kernel/tests/amd64/cittagazze.test
        index c45d9fc..90d8780 100644
        --- a/kernel/tests/amd64/cittagazze.test
        +++ b/kernel/tests/amd64/cittagazze.test
        @@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ kernel-2.6 \
         usable \
           linux-image-amd64 \
           linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64
        +unusable \
        +  linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64-dbg
        diff --git a/kernel/tests/arm64/mustang.test 
b/kernel/tests/arm64/mustang.test
        index 330f259..80ab19f 100644
        --- a/kernel/tests/arm64/mustang.test
        +++ b/kernel/tests/arm64/mustang.test
        @@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ kernel-3.10 \
         usable \
           linux-image-arm64 \
           linux-image-3.14-1-arm64
        +unusable \
        +  linux-image-3.14-1-arm64-dbg

Leading to:
        $ ./runtests amd64
        FAIL amd64/cittagazze.test arch_check_usable_kernel 2.6 
linux-image-2.6.18-4-amd64-dbg should be unusable
        amd64: 8 passes, 1 failures.

It seems this has been the case since -dbg packages were introduced (at least
Wheezy if not sooner) so this apparently isn't causing issues in the real world
(not sure why arm64 asked me that question...), so not a huge worry I don't
think but filing so it doesn't get lost.

Ian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
armhf
armel

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


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