On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 02:10:12PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> apt does NOT automatically update your kernel major version, for the
> simple reason that the kernel package contains the version in its
> name, so apt would not have any clue about the fact that
> linux-image-3.16.0-whatever and linux-image-4.9.0-whatever are related
> packages. And this is actually done on purpose, and for very good
> reasons ;)

And if you want to actually do auto-upgrade kernels, install
"linux-image-amd64", it depends on the latest non-experimental kernel
package.

I think it's even included in d-i's default, although I don't remember and
can't check right now.


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