Lintian::Processable(3)

💖 Lintian::Processable(3) 💖

Debian Package Checker ✨ okay so this is a page from the Lintian manual, bestie, and it's about the lil abstract object that Lintian can actually do stuff with. Let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Lintian::Processable — an (abstract) object that Lintian can process 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Lintian::Processable;

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So like, instances of this perl class are objects that Lintian can process — think deb files and friends 💅 Multiple objects can then be combined into groups, which Lintian will process together. Teamwork, no cap 🧚

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✨ INSTANCE METHODS ✨

the whole roster, in order, nothing skipped 👑

• name — returns the name of the package 💖
• type — returns the type of package (e.g. binary, source, udeb ...) 🌈
• hints — ✨ yes bestie, it's just there, that's the whole entry 🎀
• $proc->version — returns the version of the package ⭐
• $proc->path — returns the path to the packaged version of the actual package. This path is used in case the data needs to be extracted from the package. it's giving "where do I open this thing" energy 🔥
• 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. so like, it's trying its best, but "less dangerous" is not the same as "correct", iykyk 🙈
• fields — Lintian::Deb822::Section with primary field values. the main character of field access 🎀
• $proc->pooldir — returns a reference to the 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. it's literally the whole glow-up in one string 👑
• clean_field — cleans a field of evil characters to prevent traversal or worse. traversal. or WORSE. 😭 dramatic but fr, this one is doing the Lord's work 🫶
• guess_name — 🌸 the entry stands alone, bestie, that's all it says 💅

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Originally written by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> for Lintian. Substantial portions written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> for Lintian. icons, both of them, periodt 👑💖

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• lintian(1)
• Lintian::Processable::Installable
• Lintian::Processable::Buildinfo
• Lintian::Processable::Changes
• Lintian::Processable::Source
• Lintian::Group

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 🍓✨

this lil masterpiece is from Lintian version v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08, and it's the Lintian::Processable(3) manual page 💜 mwah, go forth and process things 🎀