> All of the dpkg info is in /var/lib/dpkg. All of the files are plain text files, use less to look at them. APT stores its cache in /var/cache/apt. The files appear to be binary. There is a debian-dpkg and a mailing list, try checking out the archives of that. Also, there is a mailing list for apt, its debian-deity.
I was wondering... (And this probably already has been mentioned but anyway), why wouldn't DPKG/APT/DSELECT use a real database server like mySQL/mSQL/PostgreSQL/... to keep it's own database? We could keep the readability of the data, and add all the power of a database server behind it. Has this been done or is it complete crap? (I think there could be trouble when dpkg tries to update the database server but there should be a way around it...)
