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.IX Title "AptPkg::Policy 3pm"
.TH AptPkg::Policy 3pm 2024-03-07 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
AptPkg::Policy \- APT package version policy class
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
use AptPkg::Policy;
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
The AptPkg::Policy module provides an interface to \fBAPT\fR's package
version policy.
.SS AptPkg::Policy
.IX Subsection "AptPkg::Policy"
The AptPkg::Policy package implements the \fBAPT\fR pkgPolicy class.
.PP
An instance of the AptPkg::Policy class may be fetched using the
\&\f(CW\*(C`policy\*(C'\fR method from an AptPkg::Cache object.
.PP
The following methods are implemented:
.IP priority(\fIVER\fR|\fIFILE\fR) 4
.IX Item "priority(VER|FILE)"
Return the pin priority for the given \fIVER\fR (AptPkg::Cache::Version)
or \fIFILE\fR (AptPkg::Cache::PkgFile) object.
.IP candidate(\fIPKG\fR) 4
.IX Item "candidate(PKG)"
Returns the installation candidate version for \fIPKG\fR.  Returns an
AptPkg::Cache::Version object.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBAptPkg::Cache\fR\|(3pm), \fBAptPkg\fR\|(3pm).
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>