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.IX Title "libdpkg 7"
.TH libdpkg 7 2025-03-09 1.22.18-dirty "dpkg suite"
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.SH NAME
libdpkg \- Debian package manager C library
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
The \fBlibdpkg\fR C library provides functions and infrastructure for the dpkg
tool set, and external projects that need to integrate tightly with it.
.PP
The library provides a \fBpkgconf\fR\|(1) entry named \fIlibdpkg\fR.
.PP
\&\fBWarning\fR: 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.
.PP
Due to the currently API volatility, only a static library is provided.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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\&\fI/usr/share/doc/dpkg/README.api\fR,
<https://www.dpkg.org/doc/libdpkg/>.