Parse::DebControl::Patch(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			     Parse::DebControl::Patch(3pm)

NAME

       Parse::DebControl::Patch - Easy OO parsing of debian patch file metadata (DEP3) data

SYNOPSIS

	   use Parse::DebControl::Patch

	   $parser = new Parse::DebControl::Patch;

	   $data = $parser->parse_mem($control_data, $options);
	   $data = $parser->parse_file('./debian/control', $options);
	   $data = $parser->parse_web($url, $options);

DESCRIPTION

	   The patch-file metadata specification (DEP3) diverts from the normal debian/control
	   rules primarly of the "free-form" field specification. To handle this we most create
	   an parser specifically for this format and hardcode these rules direclty into the code.

	   As we will always only have one block of data, we will return the hashref directly
	   instead of enclosing it into an array.

	   The field B<Forwarded> is magic and will always exists in the out data, even if not specified
	   in the indata. It can only have three values, I<yes>, I<no>, and I<not-needed>. If not specified
	   it will have the value I<yes>.

COPYRIGHT

       Parse::DebControl is copyright 2003,2004 Jay Bonci <jaybonci@cpan.org>.	Parse::DebControl::Patch is copyright 2009 Carl FA~Xrstenberg
       <azatoth@gmail.com>.  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2011-04-18					     Parse::DebControl::Patch(3pm)