Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Bug#735975: Dpkg::Control::Hash: would like more 
subtle pgp check"):
> Yes, you could rely on this, but there's actually another option, in
> this case you could use Dpkg::Source::Package instead which has a
> is_signed() method since its inception (it only got documented as a
> public interface in 1.16.1, but that interface has never changed).
> The drawback is that your code might need to end up parsing the .dsc
> file twice, but that should not be such a performance issue.

I think I'd prefer to use my idea because I use the same snippet to
parse various different kinds of 822-format files.

> > perl -e 'use Data::Dumper; use Dpkg::Control::Hash; my $h = new
> >  Dpkg::Control::Hash; $h->load("debian/control") or die; my $y =
> >  $h->get_option("is_pgp_signed"); print Dumper($y);'
> 
> BTW, you might want to use instead, something like:
> 
> ,---
> my $dsc = Dpkg::Control->new(type => CTRL_PKG_SRC);
> `---
> 
> which will set a correct name for error messages and similar, and
> field ordering for that type.

I already set the error messages myself.  Field ordering isn't
critical AIUI.  (The files I write out are .dsc and .changes;
everything else is readonly.)

Thanks,
Ian.


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