Package: equivs Status: install ok unpacked Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 51 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Architecture: all Version: 2.3.2 Depends: debhelper, dpkg-dev, make, perl Description: Circumvent Debian package dependencies This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages. Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they can also include normal installed files like other packages do. . One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed. . Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg think a particular package name and version is installed when it isn't, you can work around bugs in other packages' dependencies. (Please do still file such bugs, though.)