Re: Apt doesn't obey the equivs directions.
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Felix Almeida wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.1.9
>
> The package "apt" doesn't obey the directions provided by the equivs
> package ("dpkg" does).
>
> I had to change the file
> /var/state/apt/lists/<mirror>_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
> adding the contents of the /etc/equivs.conf file at the end of the
> "Provides:" line, in the equivs section, to solve the problem. But, I
> guess that the next "apt-get update" will screw up the dependencies
> again...
>
> I don't know this is a problem either in apt or in equivs... Sorry.
This is a bug in eqivs, it plays evil games with the pacakge versions. It
needs to increase the version of it's new package in the status file by
0.1 or so
Jason
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