Package: equivs Architecture: all Version: 2.3.1 Priority: optional Section: admin Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Installed-Size: 58 Depends: debhelper, dpkg-dev, make, perl Filename: ./depends/equivs/equivs_2.3.1_all.deb Size: 22732 MD5sum: 94855bfe932e82156b98923c0959b2f8 SHA1: f6798a266857b4b414dd50cdbb60c91484fd1554 SHA256: 5d2af219b732f1a69a1787f7d98f4a4111ff59df1d98a47d33b3379195c2b65c SHA512: 853d45677e1d0ead7af10b95801d23f060a50452f590459e6df8e0b1b8c9240f01450e4ec33dc54663144822e1263a081ff8aec4e62f0c7ebe118fbd71e949a0 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. . 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. . 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.)