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libdpkg(7)                     dpkg suite                     libdpkg(7)

NAME         top

       libdpkg - Debian package manager C library

DESCRIPTION         top

       The libdpkg C library provides functions and infrastructure for
       the dpkg tool set, and external projects that need to integrate
       tightly with it.

       The library provides a pkgconf(1) entry named libdpkg.

       Warning: The API provided by this library is highly volatile,
       still in the process of being cleaned up. It is only supposed to
       be used internally by dpkg for now. Header files, functions,
       variables and types might get renamed, removed or change
       semantics. If you still have a need to use it, which you would be
       doing anyway, say by locally building dpkg to get the library,
       then define the C preprocessor macro LIBDPKG_VOLATILE_API in your
       build to acknowledge that fact.

       Due to the currently API volatility, only a static library is
       provided.

SEE ALSO         top

       /usr/local/share/doc/dpkg/README.api,
       <https://www.dpkg.org/doc/libdpkg/>.

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       This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
       Information about the project can be found at 
       ⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩.  If you have a bug report
       for this manual page, see
       ⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩.  This
       page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
       clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At
       that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
       the repository was 2024-05-21.)  If you discover any rendering
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