NAME

       AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class

SYNOPSIS

       use AptPkg::Policy;

DESCRIPTION

       The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to APT's package version policy.

   AptPkg::Policy
       The AptPkg::Policy package implements the APT pkgPolicy class.

       An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the "policy" method from an
       AptPkg::Cache object.

       The following methods are implemented:

       priority(PKG|FILE)
           Return the pin priority for the given PKG (AptPkg::Cache::Package) or FILE
           (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.

       match(PKG)
           Find the pinned version of PKG.  Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version object.

       candidate(PKG)
           Returns the installation candidate version for PKG.

SEE ALSO

       AptPkg::Cache(3pm), AptPkg(3pm).

AUTHOR

       Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>