#!/usr/bin/python3
# grep-maintainer
# Copyright (C) 2007 Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
"""Dumb maintainer-based grep for the dpkg status file."""
import re
import sys
from debian import deb822
try:
maint_RE = re.compile(sys.argv[1])
except IndexError:
print("Usage: grep-maintainer REGEXP", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
except re.error as e:
print("Error in the regexp: %s" % (e,), file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
for pkg in deb822.Packages.iter_paragraphs(open('/var/lib/dpkg/status')):
if 'Maintainer' in pkg and maint_RE.search(pkg['maintainer']):
print(pkg['package'])
Generated by dwww version 1.15 on Wed May 22 21:49:32 CEST 2024.