Bug#901651: Python debian: deb822: add support for returning Version objects from iter_paragraphs

[Stuart Prescott]

Control: tags -1 + patch

On Saturday, 16 June 2018 16:48:13 AEDT Paul Wise wrote:
> It would be a useful feature to have the iter_paragraphs method from
> the deb822 Sources and Packages classes support returning Version
> objects in the Version field. This would help with sorting versions.
> 
> Since this would add overhead and might be incompatible with things
> like json.dumps, it might be best to either not enable it by default
> or declare it as a breaking API change in the docuentation.

I've had a go at implementing this in a backwards-compatible fashion by 
exposing methods for get_version() and set_version(v) within the classes for 
which that makes sense (Dsc, Changes, Packages, Sources).

https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian/merge_requests/7

Comments or thoughts?

cheers
Stuart

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