Bug#870288: equivs: silently ignores Essential flag

[Johannes Schauer]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 18:14:07 +0200 Adam Borowski <kilobyte at angband.pl> wrote:
> If the control file includes an Essential flag (or not-yet-official
> Important), such flags are silently ignored.  I'd expect them to be copied
> to the new package, or at least an error or warning.
> 
> Beside testing, Essential dummy packages are useful in case when some
> package managers insist on removing packages because of an arch:any/all
> version mismatch, or even because of a bogus Recommends that conflicts with
> an equivs package.  It'd be better to "apt-mark hold" the equivs package,
> but handling of holds tends to be buggy.

I also need this functionality for testing purposes.

Luckily, the fix is trivial:

https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/equivs/merge_requests/2
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