Bug#771604: tracker.debian.org: short description contains long description
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The reason we parse individual files is that we want to only
> process modified files since the last update (precisely for performance
> reasons). apt_pkg doesn't let us extract a list of packages coming from a
> specific Packages/Sources file.
In the Debian derivatives census scripts I have a way to do that
(except I don't do the update check), basically you extract the
filenames of the Packages/Sources and then pass them to the deb822
module:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dex/census.git/tree/check-package-list
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pabs
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