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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2014-05-06 01:29:28 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On May 05, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie at lxtec.de> wrote:
> 
> > So yes, why not orphan alsa-base for Jessie?
> It is useful to have a dummy package around because it can clean up its 
> own config files.
> Otherwise you risk keeping them around forever (and maybe causing issues 
> with kmod in the future).

However this doesn't solve the problem if the user just removes
alsa-base without purging it, before the dummy package gets there.
Couldn't kmod do some clean-up, possibly with user confirmation via
debconf? (Not sure about the policy in this specific case...)

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