Software engineering notes:

INPUT USED

critical:
  /var/state/apt/lists/*_Packages
  /var/lib/dpkg/status

non-critical:
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sums
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/*lists


EXTERNAL PROGRAMS USED DURING EXECUTION

  /bin/gzip
  /usr/bin/sort
  /usr/bin/md5sum


EXTERNAL PROGRAMS USED DURING COMPILATION

  bison
  yacc
  gperf
  standard compilers and linker


EXTERNAL PROGRAMS USED DURING QA

  cxref - used to generate internal documentation.
  ccmalloc - used to check for memory leaks.

