Re: safe to remove linux-kernel-headers?

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@dsi.unifi.it> writes:

> I'm trying to upgrade kdebase and it says that it's going to remove
> linux-kernel-headers
>
> is it safe to do so?

Yes, linux-kernel-headers has been superseded by linux-libc-dev, which
should be installed instead:

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| $ apt-cache show linux-libc-dev
| Package: linux-libc-dev
| Priority: optional
| Section: devel
| Installed-Size: 3952
| Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>
| Architecture: i386
| Source: linux-2.6
| Version: 2.6.22-3
| Replaces: linux-kernel-headers
| Provides: linux-kernel-headers
| Conflicts: linux-kernel-headers
| Filename: pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-libc-dev_2.6.22-3_i386.deb
| Size: 698472
| MD5sum: 12340464a4a788d020c7669ddc775177
| SHA1: ea46e3c5238fcde83209e583fc307c87879837c5
| SHA256: c36dca2a6ef933f30713e5577b32f58f01634d4f7e27ee0d1aefa08d8fcf40a4
| Description: Linux Kernel Headers for development
|  This package provides headers from the Linux kernel.  These headers are
|  used by the installed headers for GNU glibc and other system libraries.
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Regards,
        Sven