Comment 15 for bug 1386257

@lahtis deb packaging doesn't provide us the granularity to have the kernel packages specifically depend on intel-microcode packages on Intel x86 systems and amd64-microcde on AMD x86 systems. Instead, we have to depend on both packages. If you have an Intel processor, the AMD microcode is not used. If you have an AMD processor, the Intel microcode is not used.

The downside here is slightly increased storage requirements to store the unnecessary package on your device (and the bandwidth to download the updates). We apologize for the inconvenience but felt it was warranted in order to get updated microcode deployed to all users in order to address known vulnerabilities in processors.