NAME

       Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz

SYNOPSIS

        use YAML;
        use IO::File;
        use Parse::Debian::Packages;
        my $fh = IO::File->new("Packages");

        my $parser = Parse::Debian::Packages->new( $fh );
        while (my %package = $parser->next) {
            print Dump \%package;
        }

DESCRIPTION

       This module parses the Packages files used by the debian package management tools.

       It presents itself as an iterator.  Each call of the ->next method will return the next
       package found in the file.

       For laziness, we take a filehandle in to the constructor.  Please open the file for us.

METHODS

   new( $filehandle )
   next
       Iterate to the next package in the file, returns either a hash containing a package
       description, or false at end of file.

   as_hash( $filehandle )
       Return all the packages from a filehandle as a hash of hashes.

AUTHOR

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with as_hash implementation by Thomas Klausner.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003,2005,2012 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Module::Packaged