Lintian::Processable3

Usage

 use Lintian::Processable;

Overview

Instances of this perl class are objects that Lintian can process (e.g. deb files). Multiple objects can then be combined into groups, which Lintian will process together.

Instance methods

name

Returns the name of the package.

type

Returns the type of package (e.g. binary, source, udeb ...)

hints

$proc->version

Returns the version of the package.

$proc->path

Returns the path to the packaged version of actual package. This path is used in case the data needs to be extracted from the package.

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.

fields

Lintian::Deb822::Section with primary field values.

$proc->pooldir

Returns a reference to 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.

clean_field

Cleans a field of evil characters to prevent traversal or worse.

guess_name