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Lintian::Index - access to collected data about the upstream (orig) sources

use Lintian::Index;

Lintian::Processable::Source::Orig::Index provides an interface to collected data about the upstream (orig) sources.

identifier
catalog

Returns a reference to a hash with elements catalogued by path names.

"basedir"

Returns the base directory for file references.

"anchored"
unpack_messages
lookup (FILE)

Like "index" except orig_index is based on the "orig tarballs" of the source packages.

For native packages "index" and "orig_index" are generally identical.

NB: If sorted_index includes a debian packaging, it is was contained in upstream part of the source package (or the package is native).

resolve_path
create_from_basedir
create_from_piped_tar
load
merge_in
capture_common_prefix
drop_common_prefix
drop_basedir_segment

Originally written by Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> for Lintian.