Bug#724563: Suggesting 'linux-image' prevents auto-removal of any linux-image package

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

Package: firmware-linux-free
Version: 3.2
Severity: important
Control: affects -1 src:linux

Currently APT's auto-removal criteria are very conservative; it will
not remove any package where another package has any level of
dependency on it (Depends, Recommends or Suggests).  This includes
cases where the dependency is on a virtual package that is also
provided by multiple packages - none of them can be removed.

To allow auto-removal of linux-image-* packages, nothing should
depend on/recommend/suggest the virtual package 'linux-image'.

Ben.

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

Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-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

firmware-linux-free depends on no packages.

firmware-linux-free recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-linux-free suggests:
pn  initramfs-tools                          <none>
ii  linux-image-3.10-3-amd64 [linux-image]   3.10.11-1
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]  3.2.46-1

-- no debconf information