Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

 >> 6.7). So the old gpu module for 6.6 gets removed and a new one is
>      >> built for 6.7 only (since there are only 6.7 headers now).
>
>      Bastian> Ah, here lays the missconception.  No, the 6.6 ones are not
>      Bastian> removed.  Why should they be?  The system knows it can't
>      Bastian> rebuild them.
>
>      Bastian> If the current implementation would remove them, it is a
>      Bastian> problem there, not in the concept.
>
> I still think it would help if you would work more on articulating what
> problem you are trying to solve with the linux-headers versioning
> change.  I have read multiple versions of this proposal, and your
> follow-ups, and I still do not understand what is prompting the
> linux-headers change.
>
> My intuition mirrors others in the conversation that it is problematic
> to support multiple kernel versions without also supporting multiple
> header versions.
>
concerning the linux-headers. may i explain what happend to me.

I reinstalled a debian 11.6 some months ago. and last week i had to make 
virtualbox functioning again. it had to "compile" some kernel modules 
and need some "headers". my kernel (from the install is  5.10.0-23-amd64 
#1 SMP Debian 5.10.179-3 (2023-07-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux) so virtualbox 
need some 5.10.0-23 headers... you can find 5.10.0.20, 5.10.0.22,  
5.10.0.25 in the repos from where the install came from.

I had to surf the web and find a 5.10.0.23 in the web site of an 
university and wget it to dpkg -i it.

I do not know (maybe i could not even understand) the security 
reasons/problems of the headers versioning but it seems from my end-user 
point of view that, the actual situation that lend me to download from a 
website is the worst possible solution.


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