Package: wnpp Severity: normal The current maintainer of equivs, Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, is apparently not active anymore. Therefore, I orphan this package now. If you want to be the new maintainer, please take it -- see http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-o for detailed instructions how to adopt a package properly.
Some information about this package: Package: equivs Binary: equivs Version: 2.0.4 Priority: extra Section: admin Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Build-Depends: debhelper Architecture: all Standards-Version: 3.1.0 Format: 1.0 Directory: pool/main/e/equivs Files: 49b34d85ccfbbde5b77bc3248d7e89e4 514 equivs_2.0.4.dsc 293a0e15ea2021e8e763f29d0ef09053 11351 equivs_2.0.4.tar.gz Package: equivs Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 51 Maintainer: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 2.0.4 Depends: perl|perl5, debhelper, dpkg-dev, devscripts, make, fakeroot Filename: pool/main/e/equivs/equivs_2.0.4_all.deb Size: 18178 MD5sum: 835d97f567fe0cf36700ebf012082993 Description: Circumventing Debian package dependencies This is a dummy package which can be used to create Debian packages, which only contain dependency information. . This way, you can make the Debian package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages do depend on are actually installed. . Another possibility is creation of a meta package. When this package contains a dependency as "Depends: a, b, c", then installing this package will also select packages a, b and c. Instead of "Depends", you can also use "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for less demanding dependency. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. Better file a bug report instead. Justification: NMUs, RC bugs, didn't respond to pings, inactive -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
