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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.1.6
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libdpkg's unusable for development
#include <dpkg/dpkg.h>
#include <dpkg/dpkg-db.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int tmp;
modstatdb_init("/var/lib/dpkg", msdbrw_readonly);
tmp = countpackages();
printf("pkg: %d\n", tmp);
modstatdb_shutdown();
}
... you get a pile of parse error before ... -> data definition has no
type or storage class.
All those parse errors are due to #define's in config.h within the dpkg
source code.
potato, kernel: 2.2.10, libc6: 2.1.2-0pre7
