On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the > ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" => > ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add > that UX (either as a patch to equivs, or as a separate equivs-ng) > but I never got around to it.
That may be acceptable for packages that don't have any Depends: or Provides: lines or what-have-you. In general, people may be using equivs for a variety of reasons -- for example, a custom local package that depends on all of the packages needed for a specific server installation.
