On 2014-05-06 01:29:28 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 05, Elimar Riesebieter <riese...@lxtec.de> wrote: > > > So yes, why not orphan alsa-base for Jessie? > It is useful to have a dummy package around because it can clean up its > own config files. > Otherwise you risk keeping them around forever (and maybe causing issues > with kmod in the future).
However this doesn't solve the problem if the user just removes alsa-base without purging it, before the dummy package gets there. Couldn't kmod do some clean-up, possibly with user confirmation via debconf? (Not sure about the policy in this specific case...) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
