From 27c5ceabc677cd7b2d3463c135a97ba5c3b4961a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 09:42:58 -0500
Subject: more standard code here

---
 makePackagesFile.go | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 makePackagesFile.go

diff --git a/makePackagesFile.go b/makePackagesFile.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..31955bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/makePackagesFile.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package debian
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+
+	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/zoopb"
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+)
+
+// make a list of the newest .deb files
+func MakePackagesFile(all *zoopb.Packages) string {
+	var pfile string
+	for pb := range all.IterAll() {
+		var controlfile string
+		parts, err := zoopb.GetDebInfoFields(pb)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Info(err)
+		}
+		for _, varname := range parts {
+			varname, varval := GetKeyFromPackagePB(pb, varname)
+			varval = strings.TrimSpace(varval)
+			if varval == "" {
+				continue
+			}
+			controlfile += log.Sprintf("%s: %s\n", varname, varval)
+		}
+		controlfile += log.Sprintf("\n")
+		pfile += controlfile
+	}
+	return pfile
+}
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