Comment 3 for bug 1196388

In the future, we plan to have simplestreams data to describe kernels available.
this is part of the work for maas this cycle.
https://code.launchpad.net/~smoser/maas/netinst2ss is some code i put together to scrape archive.ubuntu.com and put it into simplestreams format.

for the moment, the hack above is probably the best we can really do. You could make it at least reasonable by using distro-info to figure out that precise would have kernels for precise, quantal, raring, saucy.