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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2016-01-02 12:25:29 +0100
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2016-01-02 16:19:40 +0100
commit55153bf94ff28a23318e79aa48242244c4d82b3c (patch)
tree5785ef3cffe2d70ed3e0a581a016b1ed1c3f8cdd /apt-pkg/pkgrecords.cc
parent5f1b8fadbba7108ba20bd07c7479eb5e5704308e (diff)
add optional support for comments in pkgTagFile
APT usually deals with perfectly formatted files generated automatically be other programs – and as it has to parse multiple MBs of such files it tries to be fast rather than forgiving. This was always a problem if we reused this parser for files with a deb822 syntax which are mostly written by hand however, like apt_preferences or the deb822-style sources as these can include stray newlines and more importantly comments all over the place. As a stopgap we had pkgUserTagSection which deals at least with comments before and after a given stanza, but comments in between weren't really supported and now that we support parsing debian/control for e.g. build-dep we face the full comment problem e.g. with comments inbetween multi-line fields (like Build-Depends). We can't easily deal with this on the pkgTagSection level as the interface gives access to 'raw' char-pointers for performance reasons so we would need to optionally add a buffer here on which we could remove comments to hand out pointers into this buffer instead. The interface is quite large already and supports writing stanzas as well, which does not support comments at all either. So while in future it might make sense to have a parser setup which deals with and keeps comments in this commit we opt for the simpler solution for now: We officially declare that pkgTagSection does not support comments and instead expect the caller to deal with them, which in our case is pkgTagFile: pkgTagFile is extended with an additional mode which can deal with comments by dropping them from the buffer which will later form the input of pkgTagSection. The actual implementation is slightly more complex than this sentence suggests at first on one hand to have good performance and on the other to allow jumping directly to stanzas with offsets collected in a previous run (like our cache generation does it for example).
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