Lintian::Index(3)

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version 2.139.0ubuntu2 · 11 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

Lintian::Index — your backstage pass to all the collected tea about a package's upstream (orig) sources ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Lintian::Index;

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay bestie, listen up. Lintian::Processable::Source::Orig::Index is literally the interface to all the data that's been collected about the upstream (orig) sources. It's giving "I have a whole dossier on your tarball" energy, and honestly? Iconic. 💅

👑 INSTANCE METHODS 👑

  • identifier — no deets given here, it's just... there. Mysterious main character behavior. 💀
  • catalog — hands you back a reference to a hash, where the elements are catalogued by path names. Everything filed cute and tidy, we love an organized queen 🎀
  • basedir — returns the base directory used for file references. The home base. The group chat HQ. 🏠
  • anchored — listed, no description. It's giving silent but present. 🙈
  • unpack_messages — also just vibing here with no description attached. ✨
  • lookup (FILE) — works just like index, except that orig_index is based on the "orig tarballs" of the source packages. 🫶

For native packages, index and orig_index are generally identical — twins, fr fr. 👯

NB: If sorted_index includes a debian packaging, it is was contained in upstream part of the source package (or the package is native). Yes, that sentence came in exactly like that, no cap, we're keeping it word-for-word. 😭
  • resolve_path — no description, just a name. Slay, I guess. 💖
  • create_from_basedir — listed, no description. 🧚
  • create_from_piped_tar — listed, no description. 🌈
  • load — listed, no description. ⭐
  • merge_in — listed, no description. 🍓
  • capture_common_prefix — listed, no description. 💜
  • drop_common_prefix — listed, no description. 🔥
  • drop_basedir_segment — listed, no description. 🌸

✍️ AUTHOR ✍️

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian. Respect the OGs, periodt. 👑

🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

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