On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:14:07 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: > If the control file includes an Essential flag (or not-yet-official > Important), such flags are silently ignored. I'd expect them to be copied > to the new package, or at least an error or warning. > > Beside testing, Essential dummy packages are useful in case when some > package managers insist on removing packages because of an arch:any/all > version mismatch, or even because of a bogus Recommends that conflicts with > an equivs package. It'd be better to "apt-mark hold" the equivs package, > but handling of holds tends to be buggy.
I also need this functionality for testing purposes. Luckily, the fix is trivial: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs/merge_requests/2
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