Re: Crashes with noveau driver and non-Debian software: How can I report the problems?
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 03:23:21PM +0200, Erik Brangs wrote:
> is removal also safe in case of system upgrades? For example, could the upgrade process neglect to pull in new packages because the meta-package is missing?
The only meta-package that works like that is the kernel image one.
E.g. linux-image-amd64 for the amd64 arch.
Package: linux-image-amd64
...
Installed-Size: 16
Depends: linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64
Description: Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)
This package depends on the latest Linux kernel and modules for use on PCs
with AMD64, Intel 64 or VIA Nano processors.
It's a good idea to keep this one installed, just in case there is ever
a kernel ABI bump. Then you'll get the newer kernel ABI package by
dist-upgrading. That's more of a thing for testing/unstable users than
for stable users, though. ABI bumps in stable should be exceedingly rare.
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