linux-xen metapackage Hates Freedom -- universe packages have deps on multiverse packages

[Nick Moffitt]

Binary package hint: linux-xen

Submitted from Hardy 8.04.1 as of 24 July 2008:

Exhibit A:
 Package: linux-xen
 Section: universe/metapackages
 Source: linux-meta
 Depends: linux-image-xen (= 2.6.24.19.21), linux-restricted-modules-xen (= 2.6.24.19.21)

Exhibit B:
 Package: linux-restricted-modules-xen
 Section: multiverse/metapackages
 Source: linux-meta
 Version: 2.6.24.19.21

Addendum:
 Package: ubuntu-xen-server
 Section: universe/base
 Source: xen-meta
 Depends: bridge-utils, libc6-xen, libxen3, linux-xen, python-xen-3.2, xen-docs-3.2, xen-hypervisor-3.2, xen-tools, xen-utils-3.2

So ubuntu-xen-server is in Universe, but is uninstallable unless you add multiverse sources. Likewise the linux-xen package.

It is my understanding that packages in universe must not depend on multiverse, so perhaps ubuntu-xen-server should depend on linux-image-xen and linux-xen should be itself moved to multiverse. Or maybe some of this ought to be moved into Recommends or something.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately.]

This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue. Thanks.

[Nick Moffitt (nick-moffitt)]

No, this package was very deliberately filed against a metapackage that had dependency bugs. Did no one even look at the request that I wrote?

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

@Nick -- no what happened was we had 350 bugs on linux meta. On scanning the first 150 we found that none of those were for linux-meta, so the decision was made to move them wholesale to linux, as we could at least triage them there. There was bound to be one which was wrong and needs moving back. To prevent it being moved back to linux I will mark it Confirmed. Only New bugs should be affected.

[Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew)]

Closing this bug with Won't fix as this kernel is no longer supported.
Please feel free to open a new bug report if you're still experiencing this on a newer release (Bionic 18.04.3 / Disco 19.04)
Thanks!