I don't; that's what this bug is about, upgrading laptop-detect should
pull in the correct version of dmidecode.

But if you're asking why I would issue a command like 'apt-get install 
laptop-detect', there are a couple of possible reasons:
1) In this particular case, IIRC, I wanted to keep the mythtv version of dapper 
(performance issues on that hardware with the latest version of mythtv), but 
upgrade the rest of my system. So I did a piece-wise upgrade (and laptop-detect 
was among a bunch of packages after 'apt-get install').
2) Free disk space constraints. Sometimes you do not have enough disk space to 
do an apt-get (dist-)upgrade, and have to do it in pieces (running apt-get 
clean in between).

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Dependency on dmidecode needs to be tightened
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/91447
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