On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 06:57:20AM +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Quoting Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Package: libapt-pkg-dev > > Version: 0.7.6 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > libapt doesn't support the .deb Homepage control field. Support for > > this field would allow frontends to display and/or use this information. > > > Oh, i didn't know that something was needed in libapt. I'll add > information about this bug report to the "Homepage transition" wiki > page in wiki.d.o (I don't have net access as of now to check the page > exact name).
I guess technically, I could support this without libapt knowing about it: apt-cache uses some obscure corners of the library to directly access the package record and dump it without interpretation to stdout. A Homepage() method would still be useful, though. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
