Source: equivs
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13)
Standards-Version: 4.5.0
Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs
Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs.git
Rules-Requires-Root: no

Package: equivs
Architecture: all
Depends: debhelper,
         dpkg-dev,
         make,
         perl,
         ${misc:Depends}
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.)