#!/usr/bin/python3 # grep-maintainer # Copyright (C) 2007 Stefano Zacchiroli # # 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'])