Hi, in case you want to use dpkg to parse dependency fields (instead of just adding another two lines to the simplify_packages_list function which remove the <> blocks) it might help whoever ends up implementing this that dpkg does not offer a parser for the whole Build-Depends line. So instead, one would do the splitting by comma and pipe manually like this:
my @dep_list = ();
foreach my $dep_and (split(/\s*,\s*/m, $dep_line)) {
foreach my $dep_or (split(/\s*\|\s*/m, $dep_and)) {
my $dep_simple = Dpkg::Deps::Simple->new($dep_or);
my $depname = $dep_simple->{package};
next if not defined($depname);
push @dep_list, $depname;
}
}
If I understand correctly what simplify_packages_list does, then the above
should be a replacement for it using libdpkg-perl parsing.
Maybe that helps!
cheers, josch
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