> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: > > [...] >> > The question is: Since the last xlib6g packages are empty packages >> > anyways... do you really need to Conflict: it? >> >> I'd really like to force them off the system. > > Could conflicting with xlib6g less-than say 4.3.0 help in getting us to a > workable compromise?
Why not just re-create a binary package of old software, avoiding unwanted dep? dpkg-deb -x old-package.deb tmp/ dpkg-deb --control old-package.deb tmp/DEBIAN <edit tmp/DEBIAN/control, replace xlib6g by xlibs> dpkg-deb -b tmp .
