Re: Bug#233818: Bug#233867: "Provides: xlib6g" needed in 4.3.0
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> [...]
>> > The question is: Since the last xlib6g packages are empty packages
>> > anyways... do you really need to Conflict: it?
>>
>> I'd really like to force them off the system.
>
> Could conflicting with xlib6g less-than say 4.3.0 help in getting us to a
> workable compromise?
Why not just re-create a binary package of old software, avoiding unwanted
dep?
dpkg-deb -x old-package.deb tmp/
dpkg-deb --control old-package.deb tmp/DEBIAN
<edit tmp/DEBIAN/control, replace xlib6g by xlibs>
dpkg-deb -b tmp .
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