Debian...PP::Bug(3pm)

🌸 Debian::WNPP::Bug(3pm) — the NAME section

okay bestie, come SIT. this is Debian::WNPP::Bug, and it's literally a handy little representation of Debian WNPP bug reports 💖 like, the whole point is that a bug becomes a cute little thing you can carry around in your Perl code instead of a pile of raw data. iconic behavior, no cap.

---

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

like, here's the vibe:

my $b = Debian::WNPP::Bug->new(
    {   number            => 1234,
        title             => 'RFP: nice-package -- do nice things easier',
        type              => 'rfp',
        package           => 'nice-package',
        short_description => 'do nice things together',
        submitter         => "Joe Developer <joe@developer.local>"
    }
);

print "$b";     # 1234

see how print "$b" just spits out 1234? that's the overload doing its little dance 💅

---

🎀 CONSTRUCTOR 🎀

• new — builds you a brand new instance of the class. you gotta hand it the starting values as a hash reference. that's it, that's the whole job 🫶

---

🦋 FIELDS 🦋

these are the lil attributes, the personality traits if you will:

• number — the unique ID of the bug in the BTS. the bug's whole government name, basically.
• title — the title of the bug. usually it looks something like

RFP: nice-package -- do nice things easier

• type — which flavor of WNPP bug this is. it's one of:
  • RFP — request for package
  • ITP — intent to package
  • O — orphaned package
  • RFH — request for help
  • RFA — request for adoption
  • ITA — intent to adopt

(the acronyms are the moment, honestly 🌈)

• package — the package name
• short_description — the short description of the package
• submitter — whoever filed the bug, written in the form "Full Name <email@address>"

---

💫 OVERLOADS 💫

• "" — Debian::WNPP::Bug object instances stringify via the method. the default as_string method returns the bug number. yes ma'am, that's why print "$b" gave you 1234 up there. it's giving effortless ⭐

---

👑 METHODS 👑

• type_and_number — hands you back a string with the bug type and number in the form TYPE #number, like for example "ITP #1234". so useful, so concise, obsessed.
• as_string — this is the one the "" overload uses. it returns the bug number. that's the whole thing 💜

---

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org> — thank you for your service, king 👑

---

💖 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 💖

Copyright (C) 2010 Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

bestie pls note: that "WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY" part is real. like, fr fr, no warranty. read the license, it's not a vibe, it's a legal thing 🙈

---

and that's the whole page, periodt 🍓 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-08, brought to you by the Debian...PP::Bug(3pm) manual. mwah, go file some WNPP bugs responsibly ✨💅