On Sun, May 06, 2012 at 11:56:37PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Package: python-apt
> Version: 0.8.4
> Severity: normal
>
> debExtractControl is gone from apt_inst. The example still mention
> deb_extract_control, but that is not there either:
>
> -----
> % python /usr/share/doc/python-apt/examples/dpkg-info.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/doc/python-apt/examples/dpkg-info.py", line 5, in <module>
> from apt_inst import deb_extract_control
> ImportError: cannot import name deb_extract_control
> -----
>
> Is this method gone and something else should be used instead? Or should
> deb_extract_control still be there? In the latter case, please consider
> making
> debExtractControl an alias for it so dak can work in both stable and wheezy.
It's gone. The documentation [1] clearly says so. Use:
DebFile("package.deb").control.extractdata("control")
instead. Those object-oriented replacements were introduced in squeeze,
and the other ones deprecated, and removed (or actually, disabled) for
the wheezy release.
But the example is broken, yes.
[1]
http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/library/apt_inst.html#module-apt_inst
(also in python-apt-doc)
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