Bug#83528: I would like to know the source for a given package
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > There is no "source" in it, unless you try to decrypt it from the Packages
> > filename:
>
> That is the only worthwhile information it has, whatever it is you want to
> do you have to do it using that value.
>
> Really, I'm not adding anymore random obscure junk that only 1 person
> needs, there is already heaps and heaps and heaps of it. It is an utter
> pain to keep it all working.
>
> I am building a Python API for the thing, there is a C API too, from now
> on the answer is pretty much always going to be to use one of those two
> things.
Along with perl(Brendan O'Dea) and java(me) apis. The python(Jason) api is
the furthest along, and exists on the aliencode branch of mainline apt
cvs. The perl and java apis are separate modules in the apt cvsroot.
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