On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 08:57:26AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Anthony DeRobertis > <anth...@derobert.net> wrote: > > 3. Have a Recommends or Depends on it from another package that is > > installed. (Presumably that'd be a Recommends from the linux-image-* > > packages, and would be dropped down to a Suggests for buster+1). > > Why shouldn't it stay a Recommends for Bullseye (buster+1) too?
Because for Bullseye, it'll already be pulled in (during the Buster upgrade) or during the install (as both the Buster and Bullseye installers will install it). So there is no longer any reason to inflate the importance — the kernel runs just fine w/o and doesn't lose any major functionality. Normally it'd only be a Suggests (if anything), but Suggests won't pull the package in on upgrade.
