Re: Interfaces for dpkg/deb packages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Christopher Crammond 

| I was curious as to where I might be able to find out what
| non-command-line interfaces into .deb packages are available.  For
| instance, is there a C interface that could pull out information such as
| Name, Version, Release, etc... ?

No, there is no libdpkg yet.  There are rumours that one will be
written in the not-too-distant future, however.  (That is, there is a
libdpkg.a, but it's statically linked into dpkg and not distributed.)

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