Re: dpkg rewrite in Java

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:

> 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.

What kind of partial mirroring?

I ask because hopefully any partial mirroring should be possible with
debmirror2 and it would be wastefull to implement yet another
mirroring script.

MfG
        Goswin