[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam P. Harris) wrote on 06.04.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I think we should have a more formal definition of Debian's files, and
> > which is the right way to parse them...
>
> Or, for slink, we just strip down dpkg (take ou
Jason Gunthorpe writes ("Strange Dependancies"):
...
> I have just added support in APT for constructs like:
...
> Depends: libc6, sp (>= 1.1.1-3), sgml-data (>= 0.02),
> sgml-base, gawk, perl (>= 5.004.04-4)
...
> (note the multiple lines used for the de
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I got a bug report effectively saying that dpkg permits this. Till then I
> had thought it was invalid. only xzip and sgml-tools make use of this.
According to packaging 4.1 it is invalid, "Except where otherwise
stated only a single line of data is a
Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think we should have a more formal definition of Debian's files, and
> which is the right way to parse them...
Or, for slink, we just strip down dpkg (take out package dependancy
calculation), put /var/lib/dpkg/info/* and /var/lib/dpkg/status int
> I got a bug report effectively saying that dpkg permits this. Till then I
> had thought it was invalid. only xzip and sgml-tools make use of this.
>
> Thought some of you who write scripts to look at the archive would like to
> know..
>
> I have a verifying parser and normalizing emitter which
FYI,
I have just added support in APT for constructs like:
Package: sgml-tools
Version: 1.0.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: text
Maintainer: Sven Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends: libc6, sp (>= 1.1.1-3), sgml-data (>= 0.02),
sgml-base, gawk, perl (>= 5.004.04-4)
Suggests: groff, late
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