riscv64 linux image/header/module package versions don't exist for their meta package versions

[Barry Price]

Hi,

Running mantic on a riscv64 system, trying (a little late) to upgrade from mantic to noble, I ran into "Please install all available updates for your release before upgrading" even after a dist-upgrade.

On closer inspection, I see:

The following packages have been kept back:
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-tools-generic

That seems to be because the 6.5.0-42 release made it into the meta packages, but not the actual binary packages:

ubuntu@vf2:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-generic=6.5.0.42.42.1 linux-image-generic=6.5.0.42.42.1 linux-headers-generic=6.5.0.42.42.1 linux-tools-generic=6.5.0.42.42.1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-6.5.0-42-generic but it is not installable
 linux-image-generic : Depends: linux-image-6.5.0-42-generic but it is not installable
                       Depends: linux-modules-extra-6.5.0-42-generic but it is not installable
 linux-tools-generic : Depends: linux-tools-6.5.0-42-generic but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
ubuntu@vf2:~$

These packages don't exist on the archive servers in mantic{,-updates,-security}, and don't seem to exist in -proposed either, however a complete set of 6.5.0-44 packages does exist in -proposed, which unblocks d-r-u for now at least.

Do let me know if this should be targeted elsewhere, obviously it's a packaging/release bug rather than an actual released kernel bug.

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

The latest version in mantic-updates is (should be) 6.5.0-44.44 but the riscv64 package set seems to be incomplete. Hm.