On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 12:07:06 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:37:22 +0100, Andrew Beverley wrote: > > On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 13:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > > What's the advantage of this over the various modules in libdpkg-perl? > > > > I think it's the only way to retrieve version information. It's a long time > > since I wrote my original patch for dh-make-perl, but I seem to remember > > that DPKG::Parse was the only module that provided certain information I > > needed (see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774074). > > > > I certainly tried to do it with other modules already packaged, but I > > couldn't gain all the required information. > > The attached untested patch should in principle do it. In any case the > available file is only ever up-to-date when using dselect, so this is > probably not a very generic solution. And if it's too slow, this should > be fixed in libdpkg-perl anyway as that would benefit every caller. Andy, Dam, what do you think about Guillem's patch? Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Arlo Guthrie: Coming Into Los Angeles
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