Source: equivs
Section: admin
Priority: extra
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Standards-Version: 4.0.0
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 10)
Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/equivs.git
Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/equivs.git

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