On Wednesday 25 September 2013 09:05 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Currently APT's auto-removal criteria are very conservative; it will
> not remove any package where another package has any level of
> dependency on it (Depends, Recommends or Suggests).  This includes
> cases where the dependency is on a virtual package that is also
> provided by multiple packages - none of them can be removed.
>
> To allow auto-removal of linux-image-* packages, nothing should
> depend on/recommend/suggest the virtual package 'linux-image'.

Hello Ben,

systemtap would like to have the linux-image dbg packages available, for
full functionality. Currently there's no virtual package for it.
Would it make sense to introduce a virtual -dbg package ?

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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