Chef/Deprecations/CookbooksDependsOnSelf

The Cookstyle cops department: Chef/Deprecations

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

# bad
name 'foo'
depends 'foo'

# good
name 'foo'

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

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