Is there a more elegant way to do this? install: ... # try hard to not depend on libkrb5* since usually it's not needed dh_shlibdeps --exclude=/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/tmp.substvars -dSuggests \ $D/usr/lib/news/bin/auth/passwd/auth_krb5 # libkrb5-3 already depends on libcomerr2 sed -re 's/\<libcomerr2( [^,]+)?, //' \ < debian/tmp.substvars >> debian/inn2.substvars rm debian/tmp.substvars ... -- ciao, Marco