Source: libdpkg-parse-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Andy Beverley Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20140227~), libmodule-build-tiny-perl Build-Depends-Indep: perl, libclass-accessor-perl, libclass-c3-perl, libparams-validate-perl Standards-Version: 4.0.1 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libdpkg-parse-perl.git Vcs-Git: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-perl/packages/libdpkg-parse-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/DPKG-Parse Package: libdpkg-parse-perl Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, libclass-accessor-perl, libclass-c3-perl, libparams-validate-perl Description: module to parse various dpkg files into Perl Objects DPKG::Parse contains utilities to parse the various files created by dpkg and turn them into helpful Perl objects. Current files understood by various DPKG::Parse modules: . /var/lib/dpkg/status - DPKG::Parse::Status . /var/lib/dpkg/available - DPKG::Parse::Available . Packages.gz - DPKG::Parse::Packages . See each module's documentation for particulars - You should not be calling DPKG::Parse directly.