---
name: "Lintian::Collect::Group"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "lintian"
version: "2.15.0"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Lintian::Collect::Group"
---

# Lintian::Collect::Group(3)

Lintian interface to group data collection

## NAME

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

## SYNOPSIS

```
 my $group = Lintian::ProcessableGroup->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/1.md), [**Lintian::Collect::Binary**(3)](/Lintian::Collect::Binary/3.md), [**Lintian::Collect::Changes**(3)](/Lintian::Collect::Changes/3.md), [**Lintian::Collect::Source**(3)](/Lintian::Collect::Source/3.md)