Hi community! I am currently starting to rewrite parts of the dpkg functionality in Java (For startes the dpkg --info part and a package list parser). I need this for my senior programming project apt-got[1,2], which is a partial mirror application that focuses as a subproject on Debian archives.
My question is: Is there a complete specification of the Debian package list. I especially need information on what situations are possible. (Eg. can you have 2 different versions of the same package in one list?) Are there any further restrictions? Is there a specific set of keyword in one package information or is it supposed to be extendable? I think I already figured out how to extract the information from Debian packages directly, but would be glad about any (_very_ detailed) information about Debian packages. Please cc me, as I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thank you very much, Tobias Hertkorn [1] http://hacktor.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/apt-got/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/apt-got/
