Dpkg::BuildAPI(3perl)

✨ NAME ✨

Dpkg::BuildAPI — handle build API versions 🎀

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so Dpkg::BuildAPI is this module that gives you functions to fetch the current dpkg build API level. that's literally its whole thing and it ate 💅

🫶 bestie listen: this is a private module — its API can change at any time. no cap, no warning era. so don't go building your whole personality on it iykyk 😭

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💖 FUNCTIONS 💖

• $level = get_build_api([$ctrl]) — gets you the build API level ✨ it pulls from the environment variable DPKG_BUILD_API, or — if that's not defined and you passed a $ctrl Dpkg::Control::Info object as an argument — from its build dependency fields. and if literally no $ctrl object gets passed? it just returns the previous value obtained 🫶 lowkey convenient fr fr.
• reset_build_api() — resets the cached build API level 🔥 clean slate energy, main character move.

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🦋 CHANGES 🦋

⭐ Version 0.xx

• this is a private module 🙈 that's the whole changelog bestie, it's giving minimal and honestly? iconic.

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🎀 cute little sign-off: this gem ships as part of libdpkg-perl, version 1.23.11-dirty, dated 2026-09-09 — stan the dirty build, she's doing her best 🌸🦋✨