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diff --git a/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst b/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst index f1bc4845..81358bac 100644 --- a/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst +++ b/doc/source/library/apt_pkg.rst @@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ Dependencies The following two functions provide the ability to parse dependencies. They use the same format as :attr:`Version.depends_list_str`. -.. function:: parse_depends(depends) +.. function:: parse_depends(depends, strip_multiarch=True) Parse the string *depends* which contains dependency information as specified in Debian Policy, Section 7.1. @@ -1743,6 +1743,9 @@ use the same format as :attr:`Version.depends_list_str`. >>> apt_pkg.parse_depends("PkgA (>= VerA) | PkgB (>= VerB)") [[('PkgA', 'VerA', '>='), ('PkgB', 'VerB', '>=')]] + Note that multiarch dependency information is stripped off by default. + You can force the full dependency info (including the multiarch info) + by passing "False" as a additional parameter to this function. .. note:: |