Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> with as_hash implementation by Thomas Klausner.

       Copyright (C) 2003,2005,2012 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

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

       This module parses the Packages files used by the debian package management tools.

       It presents itself as an iterator.  Each call of the ->next method will return the next package found in
       the file.

       For laziness, we take a filehandle in to the constructor.  Please open the file for us.

new($filehandle)next
       Iterate to the next package in the file, returns either a hash containing a package description, or false
       at end of file.

   as_hash($filehandle)
       Return all the packages from a filehandle as a hash of hashes.

       Parse::Debian::Packages - parse the data from a debian Packages.gz

       Module::Packaged

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-11-19                       Parse::Debian::Packages(3pm)

        use YAML;
        use IO::File;
        use Parse::Debian::Packages;
        my $fh = IO::File->new("Packages");

        my $parser = Parse::Debian::Packages->new( $fh );
        while (my %package = $parser->next) {
            print Dump \%package;
        }