On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you need to modify dependencies, I mean really need to modify > depenedencies, download the source and edit debian/control. In both your > examples, there are better ways than hacking dependencies.
Huh...download the source too ? You can edit the control file by unpacking the binary package like this: mkdir packagename dpkg-deb -X packagename_rev.deb packagename cd packagename dpkg-deb -e ../packagename_rev.deb Now it's all there. If you've finished editing, repack it: cd .. dpkg-deb -b packagename I do this when I have to fix the directory structure of alien-converted rpms.
