Package: grep-dctrl
Version: 2.9.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

it would be nice if grep-dctrl could parse fields like Build-Depends
and other package relation fields. Currently, one has to say

        grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends foo

which also catches package names containing 'foo' as a substring, or
write a complex regexp like (untested)

        grep-dctrl -F Build-Depends '[ ,]foo([, \(]|$)'

which is both hard to read and to get right.

For a possible syntax, a new option --pkg-field would be an option.
(And then implicitly treat a 'foo' argument as '^foo$' unless it
contains meta characters?)

(see also #339380)

Christoph
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