Opened 16 months ago
#21415 new defect
Debian/Ubuntu repositories: remove dependency "vitualbox-x.y recommends linux-image"
| Reported by: | PHD | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox-7.0.6 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | Linux |
Description
vitualbox-x.y packages in Debian/Ubuntu repositories should have their dependency
"vitualbox-x.y recommends linux-image" removed.
1.
This dependency sometimes makes apt resolve conflicts by installing random "linux-image-*" packages (which provide "linux-image" virtual package).
This mostly includes Linux kernel images dedicated for cloud: linux-image-*-azure, linux-image-*-gcp, linux-image-*-oracle, linux-image-*-aws
Automatically installing these makes an annoying mess in host's Linux installation, and may also result in failed upgrades if /boot partition is too small to fit all these kernel images.
2.
At least 1 package providing "linux-image" is obviously most likely installed already in any Linux system, so this dependency is quite useless anyway.
