Re: Bug#800093: ITP: libdpkg-parse-perl -- module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 21:12:57 +0300, Andy Beverley wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Andy Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : libdpkg-parse-perl
>   Version         : 0.03
>   Upstream Author : Adam Jacob <holoway@cpan.org>
> * URL             : https://metacpan.org/release/DPKG-Parse
> * License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects
> 
> DPKG::Parse contains utilities to parse the various files created by dpkg and
> turn them into helpful Perl objects. Current files understood by various
> DPKG::Parse modules:
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/status - DPKG::Parse::Status
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/available - DPKG::Parse::Available
> 
> Packages.gz - DPKG::Parse::Packages
> 
> See each module's documentation for particulars - You should not be calling
> DPKG::Parse directly.

What's the advantage of this over the various modules in libdpkg-perl?

Thanks,
Guillem