[UBUNTU 24.04] Cannot find or install the 'crypto-policies' package

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---Problem Description---
IBM Z Platform (s390x)

On the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS stream ( providing the 6.8.0-31-generic kernel ) we were unable to find or install the 'crypto-policies' package using the apt commands.

According to the online man page the tool is available for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. See https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/en/man7/crypto-policies.7.html

The available repositories when encountering the situation were:

# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble-backports InRelease
Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports noble-security InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Please investigate. Potentially we need a different repository, please let us know if 'crypto-policies' had been moved, but as a user I would expect the package to be provided by 'noble-security'.
Thanks.

---Debugger---
A debugger is not configured

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---Steps to Reproduce---
1.) Install noble numbat (24.094 LTS) onto an IBM Z s390x platform
    with any supported hypervisor (LPAR, z/VM or KVM)
2.) Run:
    apt-cache search crypto-policies

Machine Type = IBM Type: 3931 Model: 704 A01

---uname output---
Linux system 6.8.0-31-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP Sat Apr 20 00:14:26 UTC 2024 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux

The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64bit

Userspace rpm: crypto-policies

Userspace tool common name: update-crypto-policies (8)

Userspace tool obtained from project website: na

[Adrien Nader (adrien)]

Hi,

crypto-policies is not supported on Ubuntu: it requires deep integration with the packages and their configurations. This integration doesn't exist and is unlikely to ever exist outside of redhat-based distributions because of how tight it has to be. Past uses of crypto-policies on Ubuntu and Debian have therefore been without effect.

Note that I'm working on something related that should be announced soon with a 26.04 target.

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Thanks Adrien, I was just also digging into this and found that jammy was the last release where the package existed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2069129/+subscriptions

(interesting to see what you are working on instead)

Meanwhile I've updated the status of this ticket to Invalid.

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

... and I just found that it got deleted starting with kinetic/22.10
incl. rationale provided by vorlon:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/crypto-policies/20190816git-1/+publishinghistory