diff -Nru ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/debian/changelog ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/debian/changelog
--- ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/debian/changelog	2018-01-22 11:49:48.000000000 +0000
+++ ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/debian/changelog	2018-01-30 13:58:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.4.17.7) xenial-security; urgency=medium
+
+  * Drop the cpu-microcode.py detection plugin, as exposing microcode
+    packages will not be necessary once kernel metapackages have a hard
+    dependency on them
+    - remove detect-plugins/cpu-microcode.py
+    - update UbuntuDrivers/detect.py
+
+ -- Chris Coulson <chris.coulson@canonical.com>  Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:58:58 +0000
+
 ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.4.17.6) xenial-proposed; urgency=medium
 
   * tests/ubuntu_drivers.py:
diff -Nru ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/detect-plugins/cpu-microcode.py ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/detect-plugins/cpu-microcode.py
--- ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/detect-plugins/cpu-microcode.py	2017-03-10 11:24:57.000000000 +0000
+++ ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/detect-plugins/cpu-microcode.py	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# ubuntu-drivers-common custom detect plugin for x86 CPU microcodes
-#
-# Author: Dimitri John Ledkov <dimitri.j.ledkov@intel.com>
-#
-# This plugin detects CPU microcode packages based on pattern matching
-# against the "vendor_id" line in /proc/cpuinfo.
-#
-# To add a new microcode family, simply insert a line into the db
-# variable with the following format:
-#
-# '<Pattern from your cpuinfo output>': '<Name of the driver package>',
-#
-
-import logging
-
-db = {
-    'GenuineIntel': 'intel-microcode',
-    'AuthenticAMD': 'amd64-microcode',
-     }
-
-def detect(apt_cache):
-    try:
-        with open('/proc/cpuinfo') as file:
-            for line in file:
-                if line.startswith('vendor_id'):
-                    cpu = line.split(':')[1].strip()
-                    if cpu in db:
-                        return [db.get(cpu)]
-    except IOError as err:
-        logging.debug('could not open /proc/cpuinfo: %s', err)
diff -Nru ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py
--- ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.6/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py	2018-01-03 11:53:50.000000000 +0000
+++ ubuntu-drivers-common-0.4.17.7/UbuntuDrivers/detect.py	2018-01-30 13:58:58.000000000 +0000
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@
     KMS).
     '''
     # any package which matches any of those globs will be accepted
-    whitelist = ['bcmwl*', 'pvr-omap*', 'virtualbox-guest*', 'nvidia-*', '*-microcode']
+    whitelist = ['bcmwl*', 'pvr-omap*', 'virtualbox-guest*', 'nvidia-*']
     allow = []
     for pattern in whitelist:
         allow.extend(fnmatch.filter(packages, pattern))