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+// dpkg.h  -*-c++-*-
+//
+//  Copyright 2012 Daniel Hartwig
+//
+//  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 2 of the License, or
+//  (at your option) any later version.
+//
+//  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+//  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+//  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+//  GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+//  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+//  along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+//  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+//  Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+//
+//  Helpers for interfacing with dpkg.
+//  Based on APT: dpkgpm.cc, apt-mark.cc
+
+// FIXME: These should really go in libapt-pkg.
+
+#ifndef APTITUDE_GENERIC_APT_DPKG_H
+#define APTITUDE_GENERIC_APT_DPKG_H
+
+#include <apt-pkg/pkgcache.h>
+
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace aptitude {
+namespace apt {
+
+/** \brief Base arguments that should be passed to dpkg.  Append
+ *         additional arguments, followed by NULL, then pass to
+ *         execvp(3).
+ */
+std::vector<const char *> dpkg_base_args(const bool cached = true);
+
+/** \brief Returns \b true if dpkg is multi-arch aware.
+ */
+bool dpkg_multi_arch(const bool cached = true);
+
+/** \brief Returns the name by which dpkg knows /b pkg.  Note that
+ *         this is different to PkgIterator::FullName.
+ */
+std::string dpkg_package_name(const pkgCache::PkgIterator &pkg);
+
+}} // namespace aptitude { namespace apt {
+
+#endif // APTITUDE_GENERIC_APT_DPKG_H