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, 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 ?
This would result in the same sort of problem. But I could add a metapackage built from linux-latest, so that the -dbg package gets updated at each ABI change. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.
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