Lintian::D...wMaintainer(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Lintian::Data::Authority::NewMaintainer — it's the Lintian girlie that handles manual references, okurrr 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Lintian::Data::Authority::NewMaintainer;

That's it. That's the whole entrance. Slay. 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so, bestie, picture this: Lintian::Data::Authority::NewMaintainer is literally your plug for loading up data files for manual references. That's the whole vibe. No cap, no drama, it just does the loading thing and minds its business. ✨

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👑 CLASS METHODS 👑

Okay so here's the roster, bestie. Meet the squad:

• title
• shorthand
• location
• by_section_key
• markdown_citation
• recognizes (KEY)
• value (KEY)
• load
• refresh

Not me reading the original and realizing most of these have zero description 🙈 I'm not about to invent lore for them — that would be lying, and lying is not the vibe. They're just there. Methoding. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 💅

Now the two that <em>do</em> come with lore:

• recognizes (KEY) — bestie, this one is the vibe check ✅. Hand it a KEY and it returns true if that KEY is known, and false if it isn't. Simple as that. Periodt.
• value (KEY) — gimme the KEY and I'll gimme the value attached to it 🤝 ...but ONLY if it was actually listed in the data file represented by this Lintian::Data instance. If it wasn't? You get the undefined value instead. She's giving nothing, on purpose. 😭 No crumbs.

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. King behavior, we love to see it 👑🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• lintian(1) — go read her too, she's the main character 💜

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Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2 — dated 2026-10-08 — and this little Lintian::Data::Authority::NewMaintainer(3) page is officially read, bestie 🎀 going to bed now, mwah 💋✨