Lintian::Tag(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Lintian::Tag — the Lintian interface to tag metadata, bestie ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

my $tag = Lintian::Tag->new;

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this module is literally your gateway to tag metadata, gleaned straight from the *.desc files that describe the checks. It's giving "personal assistant for tag facts" 💅

You can use it to pull out specific metadata elements, or to format the tag description all pretty. Whatever you need, it's there. No cap.

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🎀 INSTANCE METHODS 🎀

Here's the whole squad, bestie — every method you get on an instance:

• name
• visibility
• check
• name_spaced
• show_always
• experimental
• explanation
• see_also
• renamed_from
• profile
• load(PATH) — Loads a tag description from PATH. 🫶
• code() — Returns the one-letter code for the tag. This will be a letter chosen from "E", "W", "I", or "P", based on the tag visibility, and other attributes (such as whether experimental is set). This code will never be "O" or "X" — overrides and experimental tags are handled separately. periodt 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Originally written by Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> for Lintian. Iconic behavior, honestly. 🌟

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• lintian(1)

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And that's the whole vibe, bestie — this page came to you from Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08. Go slay some tags 💖✨