Package: linux-headers-3.16.0-6-amd64 Version: 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, I work for a security focused company and part of my work is to check our DKMS modules are well supported in Debian, recently I've started to have issues with the linux-headers-$(uname -r) packages in Debian 8/9, it seems as the kernel gets updates new linux-headers (linux-image) packages are generated and the previous ones are removed from the stable repositories, I can workaround this problem by adding the snapshot repositories, however I'm unsure if this is the normal behavour in Debian, is there any formal document that states clearly how these kernel updates are handled to stable users? At the moment of writing this I'm on a Debian 8.10 system where the running kernel is: uname -r 3.16.0-4-amd64 which has no matching headers apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64 E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64' The system have more update kernel packages: $ apt-cache search linux-headers- | grep 3.16 linux-headers-3.16.0-6-all - All header files for Linux 3.16 (meta-package) linux-headers-3.16.0-6-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 3.16 (meta-package) linux-headers-3.16.0-6-amd64 - Header files for Linux 3.16.0-6-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-6-common - Common header files for Linux 3.16.0-6 linux-headers-3.16.0-10-all - All header files for Linux 3.16 (meta-package) linux-headers-3.16.0-10-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 3.16 (meta-package) linux-headers-3.16.0-10-amd64 - Header files for Linux 3.16.0-10-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-10-common - Common header files for Linux 3.16.0-10 -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.10 APT prefers oldoldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages linux-headers-3.16.0-6-amd64 depends on: ii linux-compiler-gcc-4.9-x86 3.16.74-1 ii linux-headers-3.16.0-6-common 3.16.56-1+deb8u1 ii linux-kbuild-3.16 3.16.56-1 linux-headers-3.16.0-6-amd64 recommends no packages. linux-headers-3.16.0-6-amd64 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
