apt-get dist-upgrade skips installing new kernel on K6/2

 status Rejected

If you don't install the proper metapackages (linux-386, linux-686 or
linux-k7), then no automatic kernel upgrades will happen.

What kind of response is that? Why would a 586 system need a 386 meta package? What is a meta package? If those packages are required, why weren't they installed in breezy? If they were new just for dapper, why weren't they automatically installed as a part of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', or some instructions for their need included somewhere where they were expected to be found, like
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperUpgrades , which is where I got my upgrading instructions from? Why did the PII machine not need these meta packages, or the PIII machine I did subsequently, both of which got new kernels without any additional effort on my part?

> Why would a 586 system need a 386 meta package?

OR, not AND. A 586 that does not comply to 686 specs will need it
though.

> why weren't they installed in breezy?

They were. If you installed a 686 kernel without the 686 metapackage,
this is not Ubuntus fault.

A 586 isn't any more a 386 than it is a 686. How is a user supposed to know he needs some metapackage for a 386? Why wasn't it already automatically installed?

I never installed any 686 kernel on the K6/2. That was the job of the ubuntu installer to figure out, and it apparently did it correctly when it installed 5.10, giving me a working breezy. It isn't my fault I don't know the 6.06 upgrade installer isn't smart enough to install the same kind of kernel on an upgrade to match the kernel type the 5.10 ubuntu installer used previously. The 6.06 upgrade installer did so well with everything else, it's hard to believe it isn't smart enough to automatically use a correct kernel for an upgrade.