Comment 10 for bug 1668353

This issue also affects autopkgtests of all kernel sources other than the generic flavor, from what I can see. E.g.:

http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/linux-hwe/xenial/i386
autopkgtest [19:14:57]: test ubuntu-regression-suite: [-----------------------
Source Package Version: 4.8.0-44.47~16.04.1
Running Kernel Version: 4.4.0-70.91
ERROR: running version does not match source package
autopkgtest [19:15:01]: test ubuntu-regression-suite: -----------------------]

Or http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/linux-hwe-edge/xenial/amd64
Or http://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/l/linux-gke/xenial/amd64

It may not be appropriate in all cases to run non-generic kernels in the autopkgtest infrastructure, but at least the tests should not fail because the autopkgtests are incapable of running the right kernel altogether.