Lintian::Conffiles(3)

💖 Lintian::Conffiles — it's a section 3 manpage, bestie, library functions only 💖

okay so picture this: you're deep in the guts of Lintian, you need to peek at what a package says about its conffiles, and you open Lintian::Conffiles(3). That's this page. Sit down, grab a strawberry, we're doing this. 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

Lintian::Conffiles — no cap, that's literally it: access to collected control data for conffiles. The whole vibe is "control data for conffiles, and I'm the interface to it." 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Lintian::Processable;

That's the entire synopsis. Short. Iconic. Not a single extra line. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Lintian::Conffiles provides an interface to control data for conffiles.

That's the tea, that's the whole description. It hands you a way into the control data for conffiles, and then it steps back and lets you do your thing. Main character energy, honestly. ✨

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👑 INSTANCE METHODS 👑

These are the methods you get on an instance. Group chat assembled. Let's go. 🌈

• by_file — it's listed here as an instance method, and the page does not say anything else about it. That's all the info we have, bestie, so I'm not gonna make anything up. 🤷♀️
• parse — same situation. Instance method, name on the list, no description given. Respect the mystery. 🙈
• all_entries — returns a list of absolute filenames found for conffiles. That's it. Absolute paths, in a list. Slay. 💖
• is_known (FILE) — returns a truth value if FILE is listed in the conffiles control file. If the control file is not present, or if FILE is not listed in it, it returns undef. So: truthy when it's in there, undef when it's not or when there's no file at all. Two-for-one "nope". 🫶

⚠️ important note, don't skip this one: FILE should be the filename relative to the package root, even though the control file itself uses absolute paths. And if the control file does use relative paths, those are assumed to be relative to the package root as well — and they get used without warning. So like, no heads up, no gentle nudge, it just goes. Be aware. 😭

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. Give them their flowers. 💐

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• lintian(1) — go read that one too, iykyk

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and that's the page!! this was Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08, and it's the Lintian::Conffiles(3) section-3 manual page. periodt. 💜✨🦋