Parsing single debian/control file

[Andreas Tille]

Hi John,

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:08:41AM -0700, John Wright wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier.

Well, I had other things to do meanwhile - so no real harm caused by the
delay. :-)

> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 09:25:46PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > I wonder what might be the proper mailing list to ask questions
> > like this - feel free to quote me fully or in parts in public.
> 
> I have added the package discussion mailing list to Cc.

Thanks.  perhaps it would have helped if I would have read the
accompanied README file - sorry for my ignorance.
 
> >    ctrl = open('debian/control','r')
> >    for ctrlstanza in deb822.Packages.iter_paragraphs(ctrl):
> >        print ctrlstanza
> > 
> 
> The code you have above is correct (though I would generally use
> deb822.Deb822.iter_paragraphs - Packages and Sources may have some
> special semantics).

OK, thanks for the hint.

> The string representation of a Deb822 instance is
> designed to be just like its input - idential to it, if possible.  But
> it works like a dict, so you can do
> 
>   for stanza in deb822.Deb822.iter_paragraphs(ctrl):
>       if 'source' in stanza:
>           print 'Source:', stanza['source']
>       if 'package' in stanza:
>           print 'Package:', stanza['package']
> 
> The keys are case-insensitive.  You can also add new keys.  The string
> representation will place the new fields at the end, using whatever
> capitalization you initially used.	

Thanks to a (private) tip of Zack I now managed to get this working.  My
initial problem somehow magically went away - I do not remember exactly
why I had the feeling that keys like for instance 'Source' or 'Package'
were missing - now everything works just fine.
 
> > Something related but not high priority for me and thus perhaps an issue
> > for a wishlist bug (have not checked BTS for it):  Since DEP5 is accepted
> > the parsing of debian/copyright might be an interesting feature as well.
> 
> I haven't seen a request for this yet.  Please do file a bug!

Done.  As I said no really high priority - but now it is recorded
somewhere ...
 
Kind regards

        Andreas. 

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