On 17 September 2012 21:03, Steve McIntyre <st...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org