Description: Dpkg perl modules
This package provides the perl modules used by the scripts
in dpkg-dev. They cover a wide range of functionality. Among them
there are the following public modules:
- Dpkg: core variables
- Dpkg::Arch: architecture handling functions
- Dpkg::BuildFlags: set, modify and query compilation build flags
- Dpkg::BuildInfo: build information functions
- Dpkg::BuildOptions: parse and manipulate DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
- Dpkg::BuildProfiles: parse and manipulate build profiles
- Dpkg::Changelog: parse changelogs
- Dpkg::Changelog::Entry: represents a changelog entry
- Dpkg::Changelog::Parse: generic changelog parser for dpkg-parsechangelog
- Dpkg::Checksums: generate and parse checksums
- Dpkg::Compression: simple database of available compression methods
- Dpkg::Compression::FileHandle: transparently (de)compress files
- Dpkg::Compression::Process: wrapper around compression tools
- Dpkg::Conf: parse dpkg configuration files
- Dpkg::Control: parse and manipulate Debian control information
(.dsc, .changes, Packages/Sources entries, etc.)
- Dpkg::Control::Changelog: represent fields output by dpkg-parsechangelog
- Dpkg::Control::Fields: manage (list of known) control fields
- Dpkg::Control::Hash: parse and manipulate a block of RFC822-like fields
- Dpkg::Control::Info: parse files like debian/control
- Dpkg::Control::Tests: parse files like debian/tests/control
- Dpkg::Control::Tests::Entry: represents a debian/tests/control stanza
- Dpkg::Deps: parse and manipulate dependencies
- Dpkg::Deps::Simple: represents a single dependency statement
- Dpkg::Deps::Multiple: base module to represent multiple dependencies
- Dpkg::Deps::Union: list of unrelated dependencies
- Dpkg::Deps::AND: list of AND dependencies
- Dpkg::Deps::OR: list of OR dependencies
- Dpkg::Deps::KnownFacts: list of installed and virtual packages
- Dpkg::Exit: push, pop and run exit handlers
- Dpkg::Gettext: wrapper around Locale::gettext
- Dpkg::IPC: spawn sub-processes and feed/retrieve data
- Dpkg::Index: collections of Dpkg::Control (Packages/Sources files for
example)
- Dpkg::Interface::Storable: base object serializer
- Dpkg::Path: common path handling functions
- Dpkg::Source::Format: manipulate debian/source/format files
- Dpkg::Source::Package: extract Debian source packages
- Dpkg::Substvars: substitute variables in strings
- Dpkg::Vendor: identify current distribution vendor
- Dpkg::Version: parse and manipulate Debian package versions
All the packages listed in Suggests or Recommends are used by some of the
modules.
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