deb_control_files:
- control
- md5sums
- postinst
- prerm
deb_fields:
Architecture: all
Depends: python3:any
Description: |-
Type-Length-Value8 (TLV8) for Python
Type-Length-Value (TLV) are used to encode arbitrary data. In this
case the type and length are represented by 1 byte each. Hence the
name TLV8.
.
A TLV8 entry consists of the following parts:
.
* the type: this 8 bit field denotes the type of information that is
represented by the data.
* the length: this 8 bit field denotes the length of the data (this
does not include the 2 bytes for type and length. For data longer
than 255 bytes, there is a defined procedure available.
* the value: these length bytes represent the value of this TLV. The
different types of data is represented differently:
* bytes: this is raw binary data and will be used as is, no
further interpretation takes place
* tlv8: this is a specialized case of bytes values. Using this
instead of pure bytes enables nesting of data and creating a
hierarchy.
* integer: integers are stored in little-endian byte order and are
encoded with the minimal number of bytes possible (1, 2, 4 or 8)
* float: floats are stored as little-endian ieee754 numbers
* string: strings are always UTF-8 encoded and do not contain the
terminating NULL byte
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TLV8 entries whose content is longer than 255 bytes are split up into
fragments. The type is repeated in each fragment, only the last
fragment may contain less than 255 bytes. Fragments of one TLV8 entry
must be continuous.
.
Multiple TLV8 entries can be combined to create larger
structures. Entries of different types can placed one after
another. Entries of the same type must be separated by a TLV8 entry
of a different type (and probably zero length).
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TLV8 entries of unknown or unwanted type are to be silently ignored.
Homepage: https://github.com/jlusiardi/tlv8_python
Installed-Size: '56'
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Package: python3-tlv8
Priority: optional
Section: python
Source: tlv8-python
Version: 0.10.0-1
srcpkg_name: tlv8-python
srcpkg_version: 0.10.0-1