On Sun Aug 18, 2024 at 5:32 PM BST, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 17:08:00 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > I've long felt that they were overcomplicated in themselves: the > > ideal UX should be not much more than "equivs package-name" => > > ./package-name.deb generated, IMHO. I once had ambitions to add > > that UX (either as a patch to equivs, or as a separate equivs-ng) > > but I never got around to it. > > That may be acceptable for packages that don't have any Depends: or > Provides: lines or what-have-you.
I would want this for packages which had depends/provides as well: my expectation would be that the generated dummy package would also have those depends/provides. It must not have been clear from my brief illustration, but my envisaged "equivs" tool would look up the package name from dpkg metadata. -- Please do not CC me for listmail. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ [email protected] 🔗 https://jmtd.net
