[Pkg-oss4-maintainers] Bug#728267: Dependency includes obsolete package

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Wed Oct 30 03:55:57 UTC 2013


Package: oss4-dkms
Version: 4.2-build2007-2
Severity: important

oss4-dkms depends on linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 |
linux-headers-generic | linux-headers.

linux-headers is a virtual package that is no longer provided,
starting with Linux 3.11.  This is because any level of dependency
(Depends, Recommends or Suggests) on 'linux-headers' prevented APT
auto-removing any of the packages that provide it.

oss4-dkms will thus become uninstallable on non-x86 architectures.

I suggest that you replace this dependency with a recommendation of
linux-headers-686-pae | linux-headers-amd64 | linux-headers-generic

Ben.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.11-1-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 oss4-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                                          2.2.0.3-1.2
ii  linux-headers-3.10-1-amd64 [linux-headers]    3.10.3-1
ii  linux-headers-3.10-3-amd64 [linux-headers]    3.10.11-1
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
pn  oss4-base                                     <none>

oss4-dkms recommends no packages.

oss4-dkms suggests no packages.



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