Package: grep-dctrl (2.6.7)
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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.
Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):
- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.
Similar packages:
Grep Debian package information
The grep-dctrl program can answer such questions as
* "What is the Debian package foo?"
* "Which version of the Debian package bar is now current?"
* "Which Debian packages does John Doe maintain?"
* "Which Debian packages are somehow related to the Scheme
programming language?"
and with some help
* "Who maintain the essential packages of a Debian system?"given a useful input file.
It is a specialised grep program that is meant for processing any file which has the general format of a Debian package control file. These include the dpkg available file, the dpkg status file, and the Packages files on a distribution medium (such as a Debian CD-ROM or an FTP site carrying Debian).
This package includes the specializations grep-status, grep-available and grep-aptavail, which take their input by default from the dpkg status file, the dpkg available file (updated by dselect update, but see below) and the apt available database (updated by apt-get update), respectively. The grep-available specialization is useful mainly to users of dselect or apt, while grep-aptavail only works if apt is installed.
A script, sync-available, which syncs the dpkg available file to the apt available database without requiring dselect, is included.
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