The apt-aux is a project the relies heavily on python bindings of apt to create useful tools for analysis and management of the Advanced Packaging Tool.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/apt.html
developed and tested with version 0.7.6

http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg.html
developed and tested with verstion 1.14.6

http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-apt.html
developed and tested with version 0.7.3.1

http://www.python.org/
developed and tested with version 2.4.4

• list the providers of virtual package editor:

  apt_search_package.py --provided ^editor | sort

• list all packages related to math:

  apt_search_package.py --section math

• list all found sections:

  apt_search_package.py --section . | gawk '{print $4}' | sort | uniq

• apt-aux-0.9.0.tar.bz2 [gpg signature]