Lintian::P...an::Control(3)

πŸ’– Lintian::Processable::Debian::Control πŸ’–

okay bestie, welcome to the Lintian manual, section 3 β€” the Debian Package Checker corner of the docs. This one's about Lintian::Processable::Debian::Control, and yes, it's a whole little module. Let's get into it πŸŽ€


✨ NAME ✨

Lintian::Processable::Debian::Control β€” the Lintian interface to d/control fields. that's it, that's the name, she's serving exactly what she says on the tin πŸ’…


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the whole vibe, in one line:

use Lintian::Processable;

that's literally the entire synopsis. no cap. short king energy πŸ‘‘


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

so Lintian::Processable::Debian::Control provides an interface to package data from d/control. that's the tea. she's the bridge between Lintian and your d/control fields, and that's the whole job description fr fr ✨


πŸ‘‘ INSTANCE METHODS πŸ‘‘

  • debian_control

and that's the entire list. one method, no elaboration, she said "figure it out bestie" πŸ’€ periodt.


πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

this one came from:

  • Originally written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> for Lintian.
  • Amended by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian.

shoutout to the authors, absolute icons 🫢


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read it, iykyk πŸ’–


and that's the whole page, bestie!! this gem came from Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08 β€” so if you're reading this, you're on that exact version, no cap 🌸✨ mwah, love u, go lint something πŸ’…πŸŽ€

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