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deb package seems generated for old Debian or Ubuntu #105

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Debian 13 here.
The current DEB package has an old dependancy:

$ sudo dpkg -i pineflash_0.5.5_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package pineflash.
(Reading database ... 768218 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack pineflash_0.5.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking pineflash (0.5.5) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pineflash:
 pineflash depends on policykit-1; however:
  Package policykit-1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package pineflash (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.6+repack-1.1+b2) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.28-1) ...
Processing triggers for mate-menus (1.26.1-1) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.74) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 pineflash

that in current Debian is changed to 'polkitd':

$ sudo apt install policykit-1
Package policykit-1 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  polkitd:i386  pkexec:i386  polkitd  pkexec

This does not let install the package

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