LINTIAN::DATA::AUTHORITY::DEBCONFSPECIFICATION(3)

💅 Lintian::Data::Authority::DebconfSpecification — a whole manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, we're looking at a page from the Debian Package Checker manual set, and it's all about Lintian::Data::Authority::DebconfSpecification(3). yes it's a mouthful, yes it's iconic, let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Lintian::Data::Authority::DebconfSpecification — the Lintian interface for manual references 💖

like, that's the whole job. a lil interface. doing manual reference things. slay.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Lintian::Data::Authority::DebconfSpecification;

that's it. one line. one singular use statement and you're in, bestie. no config, no ceremony, just vibes and a module. periodt. ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea: Lintian::Data::Authority::DebconfSpecification gives you a way to load data files for manual references. that's the whole mission statement, no cap. it's a loader. it loads. data files. specifically for manual references. 🫶

it's giving "quiet helper module that does exactly one thing and does it flawlessly" and honestly? obsessed.

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👑 CLASS METHODS 👑

here's the full roster, in the exact order the page serves them, no skips, no edits, main character energy only:

• title — yep, it's a method
• shorthand — yep, also a method
• location — method number three
• separator — you guessed it, a method
• consumer — a method 🍓
• markdown_citation — a method, and honestly the name alone is giving librarian chic
• write_line — a method
• write_data_file — another method, sibling energy to the one above
• extract_sections_from_links — a method, and yes the name is long but it ate
• refresh — a method, and the perfect dramatic finalé 💅

fr fr that's the entire list — ten entries, nothing more, nothing less. the original page doesn't describe what each one does, so I'm not gonna make anything up. we respect the source in this house. 🙈

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. king behaviour, honestly. 👑

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• lintian(1)

go read that one too, bestie, it's the whole ecosystem. iykyk. 🦋

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and that's the page!! you made it all the way to the end 🎀

this was from Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08, and yes, the original footer really did abbreviate the name as Lintian::Da...ecification(3) — mysterious, dramatic, a little unhinged, we love her for it. ✨💖