Bug#724569: Virtual package linux-image should be removed

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

Package: src:linux
Version: 3.11-1~exp1
Severity: important

This virtual package serves little purpose.  Debian continues to
support chroot'd installations without a kernel, custom kernel
packages and unpackaged kernels.  The proper way to ensure that an
up-to-date official kernel is installed is to install the appropriate
metapackage (as d-i does).

Further, any level of dependency (Depends, Recommends or Suggests) on
'linux-image' prevents APT auto-removing any of the packages that
provide it, making any use of the virtual package actually harmful.

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