Bug#218995: Patch for #218995

[Daniel Hartwig <mandyke@gmail.com>]

On 17 September 2012 22:37, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
> ACK. I was a little surprised to see the output format here. I've
> added support for parsing the versions in apt's internal format, by
> digging through source code to find the definitions. I can always
> switch that code back to parsing human-readable text, thought.

There is also libdpkg-perl with Dpkg::Deps deps_parse that will parse
the “Depends: foo | bar, baz (...” lines from Packages/apt-cache show.