deb822: support for "parsed" dependencies

[John Wright]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 08:59:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Now to the _important question_. I think this feature should be
> mandatory for deb822. Either we turn the Recommends on python-debian to
> a Depends and use ParseDepends (then we can discuss the better returned
> data structure), or we use an alternative implementation like mine. What
> do you prefer?

I agree that this feature should always be available.  I assume you
meant, for "option 1", to increase the dependency on python-apt.  I have
no preference either way; in the past, we've tried to make sure the
deb822 module was complete as a "pure" Python module, even if there were
faster implementations available using python-apt.  I'll let Dato pipe
in here, since he was the one initially to implement stuff using apt_pkg
while still having the pure Python stuff workable. :)

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>