Bug#218995: Patch for #218995
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:49:06PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>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.
Yup. I know. I'm going to end up using some of the Dpkg::Deps code to
at least allow me to do sensible version comparisons, but the rest of
the code is probably less useful in this case. Rather than dig through
things like virtual depends, it's much easier to just let apt tell me
about them...
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