Lintian::Processable

Section: Debian Package Checker (3)
Updated: 2023-02-05
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NAME

Lintian::Processable -- An (abstract) object that Lintian can process

SYNOPSIS

 use Lintian::Processable;

DESCRIPTION

Instances of this perl class are objects that Lintian can process (e.g. deb files). Multiple objects can then be combined into groups, which Lintian will process together.

INSTANCE METHODS

name: Returns the name of the package.
type: Returns the type of package (e.g. binary, source, udeb ...)
hints
$proc->version: Returns the version of the package.
$proc->path: Returns the path to the packaged version of actual package. This path is used in case the data needs to be extracted from the package.
basename: Returns the basename of the package path.
$proc->architecture: Returns the architecture(s) of the package. May return multiple values from changes processables. For source processables it is ``source''.
$proc->source_name: Returns the name of the source package.
$proc->source_version: Returns the version of the source package.
$proc->tainted: Returns a truth value if one or more fields in this Processable is tainted. On a best effort basis tainted fields will be sanitized to less dangerous (but possibly invalid) values.
fields: Lintian::Deb822::Section with primary field values.
$proc->pooldir: Returns a reference to lab this Processable is in.
$proc->basedir: Returns the base directory of this package inside the lab.
"identifier": Produces an identifier for this processable. The identifier is based on the type, name, version and architecture of the package.
clean_field: Cleans a field of evil characters to prevent traversal or worse.
guess_name

AUTHOR

Originally written by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> for Lintian. Substantial portions written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> for Lintian.

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