Bug#783137: share parsing of sources.list files

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: user debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Control: usertag -1 bcn2015

-=| Niko Tyni, 22.04.2015 22:22:49 +0300 |=-
> Package: dh-make-perl, apt-file
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It looks like both apt-file and Debian::AptContents::get_contents_files()
> in dh-make-perl parse /etc/apt/sources.list type files and try to
> determine a path to Contents files from that. It would be nice if they
> could share this code, perhaps by moving it into a separate module
> shipped with apt-file that dh-make-perl could use.

FTR, I tried moving the parse_sources_list() routine into a separate 
module (Apt::Parse::Sources), but it seems to use too much from 
apt-file's machinery - $Conf, debug(), error(), warningx(). Not that 
it isn't possible to re-implement that or hack something, but it 
started to feel uncomfortable messing with apt-file internals.

Sorry, no good news :/

> (This was prompted by #783110 FWIW.)
> 
> As for actually parsing the sources.list files, libapt-pkg-perl does
> some of that too but unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any interface
> for getting details about the source repositories...