Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-10-15 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes: > Either approach is fine, as systemtap is a power user/developer tool, > when users typically know what they are installing. > I'll let you finalize and close this bug. Ok, I'll remove the dependency in the next upload. -Timo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-26 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Thursday 26 September 2013 06:44 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > do we actually need the dependency? Currently if stap fails it will > guide the user to read README.Debian which will tell them to use > stap-prep which will install matching header, debug and kbuild packages. > IMHO we could jus

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-26 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Hi - > > do we actually need the dependency? Currently if stap fails it will > > guide the user to read README.Debian which will tell them to use > > stap-prep which will install matching header, debug and kbuild packages. > > IMHO we could just drop the suggests unless I'm missing something here.

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2013-09-26 at 16:14 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Hi Ben and Ritesh, > > do we actually need the dependency? Currently if stap fails it will > guide the user to read README.Debian which will tell them to use > stap-prep which will install matching header, debug and kbuild packages.

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi Ben and Ritesh, do we actually need the dependency? Currently if stap fails it will guide the user to read README.Debian which will tell them to use stap-prep which will install matching header, debug and kbuild packages. IMHO we could just drop the suggests unless I'm missing something here.

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 19:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Wednesday 25 September 2013 06:58 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> Hello Ben, > >> > > >> > systemtap would like to have the linux-image dbg packages available, for > >> > full functionality. Currently there's no virtual package for it.

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Wednesday 25 September 2013 06:58 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> 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 ? > This

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 13:07 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > 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, Recom

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-25 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
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 o

Bug#724561: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

2013-09-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: systemtap Version: 2.3-1 Severity: important Control: affects -1 src:linux 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