[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#724566: Recommending 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

[Ben Hutchings]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1.2
Severity: important

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'.

Ben.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential    11.6
ii  coreutils          8.21-1
ii  dpkg-dev           1.17.1
ii  gcc                4:4.8.1-3
ii  make               3.81-8.2
ii  module-init-tools  9-3
ii  patch              2.7.1-3

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                                      1.19-2
ii  linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64 [linux-headers]    3.10.3-1
ii  linux-headers-3.11-rc5-amd64 [linux-headers]  3.11~rc5-1~exp1
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-headers]   3.2.46-1
ii  linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 [linux-image]        3.10.11-1
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]       3.2.46-1
ii  menu                                          2.1.46
ii  sudo                                          1.8.7-3

dkms suggests no packages.

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