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+Source: vpp
+Section: net
+Priority: extra
+Maintainer: Cisco OpenVPP Packaging Team <bogus.address@cisco.com>
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), dkms
+Standards-Version: 3.9.4
+
+Package: vpp
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Vector Packet Processing--executables
+ This package provides VPP executables: vpe, vpe_api_test, vpe_json_test
+ vpe - the vector packet engine
+ vpe_api_test - vector packet engine API test tool
+ vpe_json_test - vector packet engine JSON test tool
+
+Package: vpp-dbg
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Vector Packet Processing--debug symbols
+
+Package: vpp-dev
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Vector Packet Processing--development support
+ This package contains development support files for the VPP libraries, including:
+ .
+ Do we need to list those header files or just leave it blank ?
+ dynamic vectors (vec.c), dynamic bitmaps (bitmap.h), allocation heap of
+ objects (heap.c), allocation pool(pool.h), dynamic hash tables (hash.c), memory
+ allocator (mheap.c), extendable printf-like interface built on top of vectors
+ (format.c), formats for data structures (std-formats.c), and support for clock
+ time-based function calls (timer.c).
+ .
+ TODO: reference and describe only the .h files
+
+Package: vpp-lib
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: Vector Packet Processing--runtime libraries
+ This package contains the VPP shared libraries, including:
+ .
+ vppinfra - foundation library supporting vectors, hashes, bitmaps, pools, and string formatting.
+ dpdk - Intel DPDK library
+ svm - vm library
+ vlib - vector processing library
+ vlib-api - binary API library
+ vnet -  network stack library
+
+Package: vpp-dpdk-dkms
+Architecture: any
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Description: DPDK 2.1 igb_uio_driver
+ This package contains Linux kernel modules distributed with DPDK.