Hi. Jochen Voss wrote: > is there an easy way to find the following information from within a > Python program? > (1) the dependencies, predependencies, and build-dependencies of a > specific Debian package, > (2) a list of all essential packages, and > (3) a list of all required packages There is the (terminally ill documented [1]) package python-apt, which provides a reasonably fast [2] interface to the apt cache. If you want my pitifuly "dependency tree lister" (something between a python-apt and a wxtree example with bad style), I can send you that, too. Cheers T. 1. Last time I looked, at least not documented in the places I looked. I ended up looking up looking at the source code of the python extension. 2. I.e. loops over all packages (looking for the section etc.) are feasible.
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