Test::Lintian::Filter(3)

💖 Test::Lintian::Filter(3) 💖

okay bestie, you found the page for Test::Lintian::Filter — it's a Perl module (yeah, (3) means Perl, iykyk) from Lintian, the Debian package checker. it's literally just a lil toolbox of functions that figure out which tests you actually wanna run. no cap. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

Test::Lintian::Filter — Functions to select with tests to run 🌸

(yes, the typo is their typo, I'm keeping it exactly as-is, periodt 💅)

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

use Test::Lintian::Filter qw(find_selected_lintian_testpaths);
my @testpaths = find_selected_lintian_testpaths('suite:changes');

look at that. chef's kiss. you import the one function you want, you hand it a selection string, you get test paths back. iconic. ✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so these are Functions that parse the optional argument 'only_run' — that's the thing that tells Lintian which tests are supposed to run. then it finds them. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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👑 FUNCTIONS 👑

🌟 get_suitepath(TEST_SET, SUITE)

Returns a string containing all test belonging to suite SUITE relative to path TEST_SET. 💖

ngl that's the original wording and it's just as grammatically unhinged as it sounds, but the meaning is clear: you give it a test set and a suite, it hands you back a string with everything in that suite, positioned relative to the test set path.

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🌟 find_selected_scripts(SCRIPT_PATH, ONLY_RUN)

Find all test scripts in SCRIPT_PATH that are identified by the user's selection string ONLY_RUN. 🔥

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🌟 find_selected_lintian_testpaths(TEST_SET, ONLY_RUN)

Find all those test paths with Lintian tests located in the directory TEST_SET and identified by the user's selection string ONLY_RUN. 🦋

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🌟 find_all_testpaths(PATH)

Returns an array containing all test paths located under PATH. They are identified as test paths by a specially named file containing the test description (presently 'desc'). 🌸

so like — a directory is only a "test path" if it's got that magic little desc file in it. that's the vibe check. pass it, you're a test. 💅

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🌟 find_testpaths_by_name(PATH, NAME)

Returns an array containing all test paths with the name NAME located under PATH. The test paths are identified as such by a specially named file containing the test description (presently 'desc'). ⭐

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🌟 find_all_tags(TEST_PATH)

Returns an array containing all tags that somehow concern the test located in TEST_PATH. 🌈

"somehow concern" — love that energy, very much "we know it when we see it". keeping the wording, bestie. 💀

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🎀 that's the whole thing 🎀

slay. go run your tests, main character. 👑

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this page is from Lintian v2.139.0ubuntu2, dated 2026-10-08 — yeah, from the future, we're just built different 🕰️✨