NAME

       libdpkg - Debian package manager C library

DESCRIPTION

       The libdpkg C library provides functions and infrastructure for the dpkg tool set, and
       external projects that need to integrate tightly with it.

       The library provides a pkgconf(1) entry named libdpkg.

       Warning: The API provided by this library is highly volatile, still in the process of
       being cleaned up. It is only supposed to be used internally by dpkg for now. Header files,
       functions, variables and types might get renamed, removed or change semantics. If you
       still have a need to use it, which you would be doing anyway, say by locally building dpkg
       to get the library, then define the C preprocessor macro LIBDPKG_VOLATILE_API in your
       build to acknowledge that fact.

       Due to the currently API volatility, only a static library is provided.

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/dpkg/README.api, <https://www.dpkg.org/doc/libdpkg/>.