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Source: equivs
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>
Standards-Version: 3.9.2
Build-Depends: debhelper
Package: equivs
Depends: perl, debhelper, dpkg-dev, make, fakeroot, ${misc:Depends}
Architecture: all
Description: Circumvent Debian package dependencies
This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages.
Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they
can also include normal installed files like other packages do.
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One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole
purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so
that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed.
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Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg
think a particular package name and version is installed when it
isn't, you can work around bugs in other packages' dependencies.
(Please do still file such bugs, though.)
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