NAME

       Lintian::Collect::Group - Lintian interface to group data collection

SYNOPSIS

        my $group = Lintian::Processable::Group->new ('lintian_2.5.0_i386.changes');
        my $ginfo = Lintian::Collect::Group->new ($group);

        foreach my $bin ($group->get_binary_processables) {
           my $pkg_name = $bin->pkg_name;
           foreach my $dirdep ($ginfo->direct_dependencies ($bin)) {
               print "$pkg_name (pre-)depends on $dirdep (which is also in this group)\n";
           }
        }

DESCRIPTION

       Lintian::Collect::Group is a "group" variant of the Lintian::Collect modules.  It attempts
       to expose a similar interface as these and provide useful information about the
       processable group (or members of it).

CLASS METHODS

       Lintian::Collect::Group->new ($group)
           Creates a new object to provide information about $group.

       direct_dependencies (PROC)
           If PROC is a part of the underlying processable group, this method returns a listref
           containing all the direct dependencies of PROC.  If PROC is not a part of the group,
           this returns undef.

           Note: Only strong dependencies (Pre-Depends and Depends) are considered.

           Note: Self-dependencies (if any) are not included in the result.

       $ginfo->type
           Return the type of this collect object (which is the string 'group').

       spelling_exceptions
           Returns a hashref of words, which the spell checker should ignore.  These words are
           generally based on the package names in the group to avoid false-positive "spelling
           error" when packages have "fun" names.

           Example: Package alot-doc (#687464)

AUTHOR

       Originally written by Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> for Lintian.

SEE ALSO

       lintian(1), Lintian::Collect::Binary(3), Lintian::Collect::Changes(3),
       Lintian::Collect::Source(3)