[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#747074: alsa-utils: please drop Recommends: alsa-base

[Simon McVittie]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.27.2-1
Severity: wishlist

kmod 17-1 appears to have superseded alsa-base ("Merged the few useful
directives from the alsa-base package and added a versioned Breaks to
force it to be uninstalled"), making alsa-base more or less uninstallable
(since official Debian kernels require kmod). Please consider changing

Recommends: alsa-base

to something more like

Recommends: kmod (>= 17-1~) | alsa-base

alsa-base can probably also go away once things have stopped depending on it.

Regards,
    S

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

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  kmod            16-2
ii  libasound2      1.0.27.2-3
ii  libc6           2.18-5
ii  libncursesw5    5.9+20140118-1
ii  libsamplerate0  0.1.8-7
ii  libtinfo5       5.9+20140118-1
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian12
ii  whiptail        0.52.15-3+b1

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base  1.0.25+3

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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