equivs

[Lex Chive <lexchive@iname.com>]

Here is the problem: I am trying to install ssltelnet, but it depends on
libsocks4 (tho I dont see why). I already have socks5 on my system so
obviously I dont want to install libsocks4 over this. So I configured equivs
to provide libsocks4. No I have:
	anoat:/usr/src# dpkg --status equivs
	Package: equivs
	Status: install ok installed
	Provides: libsocks4

but when I run apt-get I get:
	anoat:/usr/src# apt-get -s install ssltelnet
	Updating package status cache...done
	Checking system integrity...ok
	The following extra packages will be installed:
	  libsocks4
	The following NEW packages will be installed:
	  libsocks4 ssltelnet

So, did I miss something? How am I supposed to use equivs, I just put the
package name in /etc/equivs.conf and run debian/rules binary, right? and while
we're at this how can I tell equivs to declare other package versions (eg if I
want it to declare libc6 installed it doesnt change dependancies for packages
wanting libc6(>=2.1))?

Thank you.
Lex

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