On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Deepak Tripathi wrote:
* Package name : libdpkg-parse-perl
Version : 0.01
Upstream Author : Adam Jacob <|holoway@cpan.org>
|* URL :
http://search.cpan.org/~holoway/DPKG-Parse-0.01/
* License : Perl License
Programming Lang : Perl
Description : 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:
Can you briefly compare the functionality of DPKG::Parse and AptPkg?
it provides the approximately same functionality BUT it is in Object
oriented way.
I fail to see the need to package a few dozen of lines of perl that simply
parse RFC2822-compatible headers when we have lots of well tested code to
handle those.
This module has seen a single release numbered 0.01, and it dates back to
2 years ago already.
Deepak, please don't package every useless bit of perl.