Hey As the subject suggests; I would like to use a part of the Dpkg::Vendor API instead of dpkg-vendor. As you may know I in the process of adding "Vendor Customization" for Lintian[1] and for that we recently decided to use dpkg-vendor in Lintian to determine the best profile for the current vendor.
Nevertheless, dpkg-vendor is in the dpkg-dev package and that undermines our work on #626476 (reducing dpkg-dev to a suggests). So if we could use Dpkg::Vendor as fall-back in the absence of dpkg-vendor that would be really great. We use two dpkg-vendor queries: dpkg-vendor --query Vendor - and - dpkg-vendor --vendor <$vendor> --query Parent On a slightly related note: we assume that a given vendor can only have one "Parent". This is based on the code in dpkg-vendor which seems to imply this is the case (the 'derives-from' action). If this assertion does not hold, please let me know so I can correct it. ~Niels PS: Please CC me in replies. [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Lintian/Spec/VendorCustomization -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4de812d8.50...@thykier.net