NAME

       Debian::Debget - helper functions used by debget et al

SYNOPSIS

       XXX

DESCRIPTION

       These are functions used by debget and related scripts, but you can use them, too.  I will
       do everything possible to retain backwards compatibility for the interfaces documented
       here.

       Most of these functions will "die" if they're called in a context (scalar, list) which
       doesn't match what they expect.  This is so that I will be able to change them to return
       something different in the other context without breaking old code.

IMPORTABLES

       binary_package_info package
           This function returns some information about a binary package.

           If the package isn't found nothing is returned.  If it is found, the return value is a
           data structure like this:

               $r->{$distribution}{$architecture} = $version;
               # $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc.
               # $architecture => 'i386', 'powerpc', etc.

           If something goes seriously wrong binary_package_info will "die".

       source_package_info package
           This function returns some information about a source package.

           If the package isn't found nothing is returned.  If it is found, the return value is a
           data structure like this:

               $r->{$distribution} = [$version, @binary_package_list];
               # $distribution => 'stable', 'experimental', etc.
               # $version      => '123.4-5', etc.
               # @binary_package_list => qw(nethack-common nethack-x11), etc.

       cmp_debian_versions v1, v2
           This is like "cmp" for Debian package version numbers.  It is prototyped to take 2
           scalar arguments, so it can be used as-is as a "sort" comparison function.

       upstream_version debian-version
           This returns the upstream version extracted from the given debian-version

       pool_dir package
           This returns the pool directory (starting at the "pool/" level) in which files for
           package are stored.  package can be either a binary or source package name.

SEE ALSO

       debget(1), AptPkg(3pm)

AUTHOR

       Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>