Source: apt Section: admin Priority: important Maintainer: APT Development Team Uploaders: Jason Gunthorpe , Adam Heath Standards-Version: 3.5.8.0 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2), docbook-utils, libdb2-dev Package: apt Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Priority: standard Replaces: libapt-pkg-doc (<< 0.3.7), libapt-pkg-dev (<< 0.3.7) Provides: ${libapt-pkg:provides} Suggests: dpkg-dev Section: base Description: Advanced front-end for dpkg This is Debian's next generation front-end for the dpkg package manager. It provides the apt-get utility and APT dselect method that provides a simpler, safer way to install and upgrade packages. . APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in /usr/share/doc/apt/guide.text.gz Package: libapt-pkg-dev Architecture: any Priority: optional Depends: apt-utils, ${libapt-pkg:provides}, ${libapt-inst:provides} Section: devel Description: Development files for APT's libapt-pkg and libapt-inst This package contains the header files and libraries for developing with APT's libapt-pkg Debian package manipulation library and the libapt-inst deb/tar/ar library. Package: libapt-pkg-doc Architecture: all Priority: optional Section: doc Description: Documentation for APT development This package contains documentation for development of the APT Debian package manipulation program and its libraries. Package: apt-utils Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Priority: optional Provides: ${libapt-inst:provides} Section: admin Description: APT utility programs This package contains some infrequently used APT utility programs such as apt-ftparchive, apt-sortpkgs and apt-extracttemplates. . apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation. apt-ftparchive is used to create Package and other index files. apt-sortpkgs is a Package/Source file normalizer.