flash poll: do we need a library for parsing sources.list?

[Enrico Zini]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 04:03:17PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

> Do we have whatever library for parsing /etc/apt/sources.list? If no, I
> think we should write a new component for python-debian which implements
> it and (maybe :-)) I volunteer for writing an initial implementation.
> The functionality I mildly have in mind are:
[...]

Note that /etc/debtags/sources.list and /etc/debtags/sources.list.d
follow the same syntax, only they have 'tag' instead of 'deb'.  It would
be interesting to be able to parse that, too, even if it wouldn't be
very important.

OTOH, if any of you are coming to FOSDEM, in my talk I'm going to
present the problem of downloading extra package information (read, for
example, popcon) into the system.  This could mean new sources.  We'll
see.


Ciao,

Enrico

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