Bug#218995: Patch for #218995
On 17 September 2012 21:03, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>>Can't you get the required information already from show and showpkg?
>
> It's possible, but substantially harder to parse reliably. This is the
> whole point of depends AFAICS...
Ok. Still, “apt-cache show” output is direct from Packages so no
chance of funny business.
Anyway, I see that changing to use show is more work, since your
tools/sort_deps is already quite cosy with depends :-)
Regards
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