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Parse-Deb-Control-0.04
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NAME

Parse::Deb::Control - parse and manipulate debian/control in a controlable way

SYNOPSIS

Print out all "Package:" values lines

use Parse::Deb::Control;

my $parser = Parse::Deb::Control->new($control_txt);
my $parser = Parse::Deb::Control->new(['path', 'to', 'debian', 'control']);
my $parser = Parse::Deb::Control->new($fh);

foreach my $para ($parser->get_paras('Package')) {
    print $para->{'Package'}, "\n";
}

or

foreach my $entry ($parser->get_keys('Package')) {
    print ${$entry->{'value'}}, "\n";
}

Modify "Maintainer:"

my $mantainer = 'someone@new';

my $parser = Parse::Deb::Control->new($control_txt);
foreach my $para ($parser->get_paras(qw{ Maintainer })) {
    $para->{'Maintainer'} =~ s/^ (\s*) (\S.*) $/ $maintainer\n/xms;
}

or

my $parser = Parse::Deb::Control->new($control_txt);
foreach my $src_pkg ($parser->get_keys(qw{ Maintainer })) {
    ${$src_pkg->{'value'}} =~ s/^ (\s*) (\S.*) $/ $maintainer\n/xms;
}

and

print $parser->control;

DESCRIPTION

This modules helps to automate changes in debian/control file. It tries hard to preserve the original structure so that diff on input and output can be made and it will be clear what was changed. There are 2 checks. First when original debian/control file processed it is generated back and compared to the original. The program dies if those two doesn't match. After making changes and creating new file. The result is parsed again and the same check is applied to make sure the file will be still parseable.

See also Parse::DebControl for alternative.

PROPERTIES

_control_src
structure

METHODS

new()

Object constructor. Accepts anythign IO::Any->read() does to get debian/control from.

content()

Returns content of the debian/control. The return value is an array ref holding hashes representing control file paragraphs.

control

Returns text representation of a debian/control constructed from <$self-content>> and <$self-structure>>.

get_keys

Parameters are the requested keys from debian/control. Returns array of key/values of matching keys. Ex.

{
    'key'   => 'Package',
    'value' => \"perl",
    'para'  => { ... one item from $self->content array ... },
}

Note that value is a pointer to scalar value so that it can be easyly modified if needed.

get_paras

Returns a paragraphs that has key(s) passed as argument.

AUTHOR

Jozef Kutej, <jkutej at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-parse-deb-control at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Parse-Deb-Control. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Parse::Deb::Control

You can also look for information at:

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Jozef Kutej, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.