Remove Recommends on alsa-base, it's a useless dummy package and not needed anyway
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2080ede..35d0ca9 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+gst-plugins-base1.0 (1.6.0-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * debian/control.in:
+    + Remove Recommends on alsa-base, it's a useless dummy package
+      and not needed anyway (Closes: #785268).
+
+ -- Sebastian Dröge <slomo@debian.org>  Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:03:14 +0100
+
 gst-plugins-base1.0 (1.6.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * debian/control.in:
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index ec29962..5ff6dbb 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
          libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.6.0)
-Recommends: alsa-base (>= 0.9.0)
 Suggests: alsa-utils (>= 0.9.0)
 XB-GStreamer-Version: ${gstreamer:Version}
 XB-GStreamer-Elements: ${gstreamer:Elements}
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index e7eeb55..8c10e17 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -99,7 +99,6 @@
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
          ${shlibs:Depends},
          @GST_PLUGINS_BASE_LIB@ (>= @GST_VERSION@)
-Recommends: alsa-base (>= 0.9.0)
 Suggests: alsa-utils (>= 0.9.0)
 XB-GStreamer-Version: ${gstreamer:Version}
 XB-GStreamer-Elements: ${gstreamer:Elements}