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Re: APT dependency feature



Grant Bowman wrote:
> OK, I've looked at the docs but I am hoping I'm missing something.
>
> I've got a problem with the hurd port.  My hurd install has a broken
> dependency that I would like to ignore.
>
>   libstdc++3-dev: Depends: libc6-dev (>= 2.2.3-1)
>
> Unfortunately, libc6-dev doesn't exist on the hurd.  They use libc0.3
> and libc0.3-dev.  The libstdc++ package needs to be changed, but I was
> hoping that apt could ignore this error and keep going, at least for
> now.

You can use the `equivs' package for circumventing package dependencies,
so there is no need to change apt, which does the right thing.


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