~/awk_dep_test (debug)

#!/bin/bash
distro=devuan
distro_ver=ascii
repo_filename="/var/packages/repo/Packages-devuan-ascii-main"
#a_stream=main
a_repo_url="http://deb.devuan.org/merged/"
            cat ~/awk_dep_test.in | awk -v PKGOS="$distro" -v PKGOSVER="$distro_ver" -v REPOFNM="$repo_filename" \
'function fixdepends_jamesbond(s,   a,p,sout) {
    split(s,a,",")
    for (p in a) {
        gsub(/[ \t]*\(.*\)|[ \t]\|.*|:any/,"",a[p])
        sout = sout "," a[p]
    }
    sub(/^,/,"",sout) ; return sout;
}
function get_inequality(s){
    switch(s){
        case "<":
          return "lt"
          break
        case ">":
          return "gt"
          break
        case "<=":
          return "le"
          break
        case ">=":
          return "ge"
          break
        case "=":
          return "eq"
          break

    }
    return ""
}
function fixdepends(s,   p,a,dep_i,dep_split,pkg_i,ver_i,v,ineq,sout) {
    print "fixing depends"
    split(s,a,",")
    for (p in a) {
        #split(a[p],dep_i) #Split into seperate dependencies
        print "p=" p
        print "a[p]]=" a[p]
        #match(dep_i,/^[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]*(\((.*)\))?/,dep_split)
        match(a[p],/^[ \t]*([^ \t]+)[ \t]*(\((.*)\))?/,dep_split)
        pkg_i = dep_split[1]
        print "pkg_i=" pkg_i
        sout = sout ",+" pkg_i
        if ( length(dep_split) > 1 ){
          ver_i=dep_split[3]
          print "ver_i=" ver_i
          split(ver_i,v," ")
          print "v[1]=" v[1]
          ineq=get_inequality(v[1])
          print "ineq=" ineq
          if ( length(v) > 1 ){
            print "v[2]=" v[2]
            sout = sout "&" ineq v[2]
            print "sout=" sout
          }
        }
        #sout = sout "," "+" a[p]
    }
    sub(/^,/,"",sout) ; return sout;
}
/^Package:/     { sub(/^Package: /,"");  PKG=$0; }
/^Version:/     { sub(/^Version: /,"");  PKGVER=$0; }
/^Filename:/    { sub(/^Filename: /,""); PKGPATH=$0; sub(/\/[^\/]*$/,"",PKGPATH); sub(/.*\//,""); PKGFILE=$0; }
/^Priority:/    { sub(/^Priority: /,""); PKGPRIO=$0; }
/^Section:/     { sub(/^Section: /,"");  PKGSECTION=$0; }
/^Installed-Size:/ { sub(/^Installed-Size: /,"");  PKGSIZE=$0; }
/^MD5sum:/      { sub(/^MD5sum: /,"");   PKGMD5=$0; }
/^SHA1:/      { sub(/^SHA1: /,"");   SHA1=$0; }
/^SHA256:/      { sub(/^SHA256: /,"");   SHA256=$0; }
/^Depends:/     { sub(/^Depends: /,"");     PKGDEP=fixdepends($0) "," PKGDEP; }
/^Pre-Depends:/ { sub(/^Pre-Depends: /,""); PKGDEP=fixdepends($0) "," PKGDEP; }
/^Description:/ { sub(/^Description: /,""); PKGINFO=substr($0,1,200); }
/^$/            { print PKG "_" PKGVER "|" PKG "|" PKGVER "||" PKGSECTION "|" PKGSIZE "|" PKGPATH "|" PKGFILE  "|" PKGDEP "|" PKGINFO "|" PKGOS "|" PKGOSVER "|"  PKGMD5 "|" SHA1 "|" SHA256 "|" PKGPRIO "|" REPOFNM  ;

                  PKG=""; PKGVER=""; PKGSECTION=""; PKGSIZE=""; PKGFILE=""; PKGPATH=""; PKGDEP=""; PKGINFO=""; PKGPRIO="";  PKGMD5=""; SHA1=""; SHA256=""; PKGDEP="";  }
' > ~/awk_dep_test.out