feature request: option to remove auto provides #1627
Description
Converting "provides" from one type of package to another might cause issues. For example when I try to convert smartmontools from OpenSuSE to deb, it will produce a deb package like this:
Provides: config(smartmontools), smartmontools, smartmontools(x86-64)
which causes dpkg to panic:
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 8 package 'smartmontools':
'Provides' field, reference to 'config':
implicit exact match on version number, suggest using '=' instead
dpkg: error processing archive smartmontools_6.6-5.2_amd64.deb (--install):
parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/control' near line 8 package 'smartmontools':
'Provides' field, reference to 'config': error in version: version number does not start with digit
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartmontools_6.6-5.2_amd64.deb