• Bug#1108380: linux-image-amd64: Fishy upgrade proposal on my AMD Ryzen

    From Cristian Achim@1:229/2 to All on Fri Jun 27 12:10:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: [email protected]

    Package: linux-image-amd64
    Version: 6.12.30-1~bpo12+1
    Severity: important
    X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]

    Dear Maintainer,

    I have been running the stable Bookworm release with the backport kernel for mabe
    a year at this point to have proper non-buggy 3d acceleration in Steam
    games. With the latest update for the backported kernel apt upgrade
    keeps back the packages linux-headers-amd64 and linux-image-amd64.
    Following back and forth and advice from forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=824473 I ran the command:
    'apt install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64
    linux-headers-amd64'. It does not keep the kernel packages back anymore
    but it now outputs that 132 packages are not upgraded. Since I do not
    wish to have a bricked system and have to install an operating system
    from scratch I did not run the command to see what it does.

    I welcome advice on how to proceed with my system at the moment.


    -- System Information:
    Debian Release: 12.11
    APT prefers stable-updates
    APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
    Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
    Foreign Architectures: i386

    Kernel: Linux 6.12.30+bpo-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
    Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
    Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
    Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
    LSM: AppArmor: enabled

    Versions of packages linux-image-amd64 depends on:
    ii linux-image-6.12.30+bpo-amd64 6.12.30-1~bpo12+1

    linux-image-amd64 recommends no packages.

    linux-image-amd64 suggests no packages.

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  • From Cristian Achim@1:229/2 to All on Sat Jun 28 18:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.bugs.dist
    From: [email protected]

    The problem is just that I wasn't aware that the apt install command will display that packages will not be upgraded and therefore nothing bad will happen if I run it. I made the update, all is fine including 3D acceleration and someone can close my bug report as solved.

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