[Bug 963011] Re: dkms package causes linux-headers-* packages stay in the system forever consuming disk space

[Mario Limonciello]

dkms doesn't directly depend on a particular version of linux-headers,
but just on having at least one of the metapackages installed.

Normally kernel upgrades don't remove old versions, that's up to the
user to do with something like Computer Janitor.  If anything this is a
bug in the way that apt will figure out the dependency chain not a bug
in DKMS.

** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: dkms (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  dkms package causes linux-headers-* packages stay in the system
  forever consuming disk space

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Because of some veird dependency in dkms package, on each kernel
  upgrade old linux-headers-* packages are not getting removed,
  consuming a lot of disk space. Finally, root partition runs out of
  space which causes serious issues. Without dkms, everything works
  fine. I checked dependency and it indeed recommends all old packages.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-40.87-server 2.6.32.57+drm33.23
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-40-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Mar 23 15:38:38 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dkms

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