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Re: parsing/using *.dsc *.changes, *.deb etc., from Python



On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:18:27AM +0100, Ondrej Certik wrote:
> 2) http://www.bononia.it/~zack/blog/posts/2007/07/python_debfile.html
> 3) http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/python-debian

Those 2 are actually one. python-debfile was a proposed addition to
python-debian and has since long been integrated into the latter.

python-debian aims to be a bundle of Python libraries to deal with
Debian-specific file formats. As such I would consider it to be the
official tool (disclaimer: but I'm one of the maintainers, so my
judgment is biased for sure!).

Note that for some of its jobs, python-debian at times uses external
libraries as, for example, python-apt.

> I am just putting it here for future reference if someone tries to
> unify these to spare him some time investigating the options.

python-debian aims at unifying stuff, maybe it's just not so widespread
(yet).

Cheers.

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