Re: equivs doesn't work
* "Werner" == Werner Reisberger <wreis@datacomm.ch> wrote:
Werner> I installed equivs (stable version) and put the line perl,
Werner> perl5 into /etc/equivs.conf but the installation of sysutils
Werner> still fails complaining about a not installed perl5 package
Werner> (btw searching for a perl5 package on the debian site fails).
The equivs version in stable doesn't work very well with apt. I assume
this is the problem for you. You would have to bump up the version of
the equivs package generated.
Werner> I tried to use the latest unstable version of equivs but this
Werner> version depends on a debian perl package and that is exactly
Werner> one of the packages I would like to fake with equivs.
equivs 1.999.9 depends on perl | perl5, so this should work.
Ciao,
Martin
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