CookbooksDependsOnSelf

The department is: CookbooksDependsOnSelf

The full name of the cop is: Chef/Deprecations/CookbooksDependsOnSelf

Enabled by default	Supports autocorrection	Target Chef Version
Enabled	Yes	All Versions

Make sure a cookbook doesn’t depend on itself. This will fail on Chef Infra Client 13+

Examples

name 'foo'
depends 'foo'

name 'foo'

Name	Default value	Configurable values
Version Added	5.2.0	String
Include	`**/metadata.rb`	Array

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