Re: Bug#111654: Bug#113657: aptitude: Support tasks

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Daniel Burrows wrote:

>   If I have some extra free time, I may try to hack this into apt.  It
> doesn't seem like it should be hard, but I remember having some sort of
> trouble.  And if this will break backwards compatibility (it'd probably

Well, I'd say, for now it is probably OK to use the GetRec function and
pass that to a tag parser.

Something like

    const char *Start;
    const char *End;
    pkgTagSection Sec;

    Rec.GetRec(Start,End);
    Sec.Scan(Start,End - Start);
    Sec.Find("Tasks",Start,Enn);

    debListParser::ParseDepends(....);

I'm not really sure what to do with the task lists, I wonder if they
should be cached? That would be a 3 line binary compatible change..

Jason