Comment 31 for bug 1926938

When we try to help people, either here on launchpad or on forums, very often we would like them to try the latest mainline kernel, just as a test to determine if the issue has already been fixed upstream. This bug prevents that useful option for previous Ubuntu versions.

This dependency should be eliminated such that Ubuntu Mainline kernels can be installed on any valid Ubuntu release at least back to the previous LTS, as has been the normal situation for at least a decade.

Earlier someone was asking how to compile the mainline kernel. My notes, without the optimizations someone else was mentioning, on "how to" are here, and they are current, even thou there is a 15.10 tag: https://askubuntu.com/questions/718381/how-to-compile-and-install-custom-mainline-kernel/718662#718662