Package: dpkg-python Version: 0.1-4
Hi there! Thank you all very much for Debian, which is the best thing going due to its hard-working package maintainers and its sophisticated package tools! I'm a developer of Mojo Nation, a new open source distributed file- sharing system (http://mojohackers.org/). I want to integrate our software with Debian, and I downloaded dpkg-python to that end, hoping to find a method that takes a file as argument and returns a dict mapping from fieldname to value. I read a lot of the dpkg-python code and experimented a bit, calling various `parse()' methods on my .deb files. I couldn't find one that did what I wanted, and there wasn't any README, example usage code, or in-line comments that I could find, so I gave up. Hopefully dpkg-perl will have some doco indicating how to get the data that I want! Then I'll mung it real quick to output something that looks just like the repr() of a Python dict, which is the format I need. :-) Anyway, before I go look at dpkg-perl, I thought that I should submit a bug report. Regards, Zooko P.S. I really spent a long time on this. I've tried many variations of passing `dpkg_packages.read' as the second argument to `tar.parse_file()' and other experiments. And I'm not inexperienced with Python nor (usually) am I slow to understand.
