Re: dpkg rewrite in Java

[Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>]

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Tobias Hertkorn wrote:

> Hi community!
>
> I am currently starting to rewrite parts of the dpkg functionality in
> Java (For startes the dpkg --info part and a package list parser). I
> need this for my senior programming project apt-got[1,2], which is a
> partial mirror application that focuses as a subproject on Debian
> archives.

I already have code that can read/write debs in pure java; I also have code
that can parse control files, and do version compares.