Bug#1084789: debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso has multiple versions of module udebs

On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 03:00:46AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>
>I think there's a problem here in (the archive|the kernel packaging),
>as far as I can see. Look at
>
>  https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/linux-signed-amd64
>
>and you'll see that right now the linux-signed-amd64 (6.12.3+1) source
>package claims to build modules for all of the following kernel
>ABIs. Picking crypto-dm-modules-* as an example:
>
> * crypto-modules-6.10.9-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.10.9-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.10.11-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.10.11-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.10.12-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.10.12-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.2-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.2-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.4-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.4-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.5-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.5-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.6-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.6-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.7-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.7-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.9-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.9-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.10-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.11.10-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.12.3-amd64-di
> * crypto-modules-6.12.3-amd64-di
>
>debian-cd just pulls in all the modules in a release, expecting that
>to be a sensible set. WTH is happening here?

Looking in the source package for linux-signed-amd64, I don't see
anything obviously wrong there. Any clues? :-(