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feat: "language" parser for .deb control data #2917

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terriko opened this issue Apr 19, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #3543
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feat: "language" parser for .deb control data #2917

terriko opened this issue Apr 19, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #3543
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terriko commented Apr 19, 2023 •
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.debs have a set of control fields which contain a bunch of information that looks awfully like the {vendor, product, version} tuplet we use for NVD lookups:

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html

I think it should be possible to read these files similar to the way we read package lists.

For NVD lookup, we would want to intentionally build in some special cases for things like python files which are all packaged with the prefix python3- and so on rather than just assuming the name is correct, and maybe trying to do some nice parsing of the url included to see if that can be used to better guess the vendor.

The release-monitoring.org website may help you with names across distros. e.g. https://release-monitoring.org/project/3779/

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terriko commented Oct 2, 2023

I've added the hacktoberfest link to this, so here's the cut and paste of info for new contributors:

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Can I work on this?

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terriko commented Nov 15, 2023

@crazytrain328 feel free!

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