Gergely Nagy <alger...@balabit.hu> writes: > But, to cut the story short, attached to this mail is a script you can > use to take any metapackage, and remove (or demote) any of its > dependencies. It echoes a control-file thingy, combining it with equivs > is left as an excercise to the reader.
If I'm not mistaken, that means that the demoted dependency will get pulled in again on the next upgrade of the metapackage, or that I have to put the metapackage on hold and will loose any demotions and promotions of other packages in future metapackage versions. Best, -Nikolaus -- »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« PGP fingerprint: 5B93 61F8 4EA2 E279 ABF6 02CF A9AD B7F8 AE4E 425C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mx37ttpn....@inspiron.ap.columbia.edu