Ekiga and Evolution-data-server (!)

[Michael R. Head]

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 02:51 +0930, Rapael Morcha wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It just kills me to think that Ekiga depends on Evolution's address
> book. What a PITA! Seriously!

Just curious, but in what way is it painful?

> Can I edit the Ekiga's dependency on Evolution manually in the .deb,
> repackage it and have the address book feature just blither? TBH, I do
> not want Evolution's address book feature and I am happy without it
> even if Ekiga spits out couple of errors here and there in the
> console, it's really not an issue for me.
> 
> I have heard that I can edit the .deb manually to remove the
> dependency by editing the control file but I quiet stuck where it
> comes to repackage the files after editing it and saving it.
> 
> Does anyone know how to do it?
> 
> Any sort of packaging guides/walkthroughs would be great! Many thanks!
> 
> 
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