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

[Vincent Lefevre]

[Cc Marco d'Itri for explanations]

On 2014-05-03 20:27:08 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> $ 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

The last item is confusing: is the goal to uninstall the alsa-base
package because it is no longer useful with kmod installed (but
there's no "Replaces:"), or should one wait for an alsa-base update?
As a user, I don't know what to do: whether upgrading kmod now or
waiting...

Thanks in advance for any information.

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