Source: python-apt Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: APT Development Team Standards-Version: 3.1.1 Build-Depends: debhelper, libapt-pkg-dev, apt-utils, python-dev Package: python-apt Architecture: any Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Priority: optional Description: Python interface to libapt-pkg The apt-pkg Python interface will provide full access to the internal libapt-pkg structures allowing Python programs to easily perform a variety of functions, such as: . - Access to the APT configuration system - Access to the APT package information database - Parsing of Debian package control files, and other files with a similar structure