NAME

AptPkg::Policy - APT package version policy class

SYNOPSIS

use AptPkg::Policy;

The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to APT's package version policy.

The AptPkg::Policy package implements the APT pkgPolicy class.

An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the policy method from an AptPkg::Cache object.

The following methods are implemented:

priority(PKG|FILE): Return the pin priority for the given PKG (AptPkg::Cache::Package) or FILE (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
match(PKG): Find the pinned version of PKG. Returns an AptPkg::Cache::Version object.
candidate(PKG): Returns the installation candidate version for PKG.

Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>