I thought about the Archive::Debian namespace. My main objection with putting it in there, is that it's going to get lost. So many things in the distro are in that control format, and Archive isn't the first place I'd look for a parser.

With Archive::Ar now complete, and with this module, I am going to be creating an Archive::Debian module that does debian .deb creation in pure perl / architecture independantly. This means that you could make fink debs, or debs even for win32 if you wanted.

It mainly will solve my problem of wanting debian package analysis utilities on RedHat without porting the binary libraries.

I agree with you that Debian::Control sounds good (because there's a lot of use for it, and the intended audience would know what it's for), but there are many wiser than I, and I'd like to see what some other more experience CPANites have to say.

    --jaybonci

In reply to Re: Re: CPAN namespace help for Parse::DebControl by JayBonci
in thread CPAN namespace help for Parse::DebControl by JayBonci

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