Re: [Dwai-developers] TODOs

[Lucio C. <lu...@su...>]

I wrote:
> Now the question is: what should we use to write the
> dewmaster script?

Actually there is another question: how do we get the dependencies list from a 
deb package? 
Choices:
1 - Reading the ar format directly (not that wise in my opinion unless we know 
the .deb ar format won't change frequently)
2 - using "apt-cache depends" (quite messy because its output is mixed with 
localized strings, hence unpredictable; moreover apt-cache requires the deb 
to be reachable through sources.list, which may not be the case)
3 - dpkg-query --show <pkg> --showformat=\${Depends} (a little better than 
apt-cache, but still the package must be reachable through sources.list, 
which may lead to the need of a dedicated system only to build DWAI XML 
files)

Any other suggestion?