[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#746799: Bug#746799: alsa-base: Depends: kmod but it is not going to be installed

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Jakub Wilk <jwilk at debian.org> [2014-05-03 19:57 +0200]:

> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.25+3
> Severity: grave
> 
> alsa-base cannot be installed in up-to-date unstable environment:
> 
[...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> alsa-base : Depends: kmod but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> 
> This is because alsa-base depends on kmod, but kmod_17-1 breaks "alsa-base
> (<= 1.0.25+3)".

$ apt-get changelog kmod | head -9
Get:1 Changelog for kmod (http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/k/kmod/kmod_17-1/changelog) [4808 B]
kmod (17-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Declared that kmod Breaks oss-compat 4. (Closes: #736748)
  * Merged the few useful directives from the alsa-base package and added
    a versioned Breaks to force it to be unistalled.

 -- Marco d'Itri <md at linux.it>  Thu, 01 May 2014 21:10:36 +0200

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