Section: misc Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12) Maintainer: root Standards-Version: 4.5.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: equivs-dummy Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Description: Dummy package to fulfill package dependencies This is a dummy package that makes Debian's package management system believe that equivalents to packages on which other packages depend on are actually installed. Deinstallation of this package is only possible when all pending dependency issues are properly resolved in some other way. . Please note that this is a crude hack and if thoughtlessly used might possibly do damage to your packaging system. And please note as well that using it is not the recommended way of dealing with broken dependencies. It is better to file a bug report.