{
"id": "stale-contract-reference",
"language": "all",
"group": "maintainability",
"listingTitle": "Update callers after a contract change",
"title": "Update callers after a contract change",
"mvvm": false,
"defaultSeverity": "warn",
"legacyGroup": "yagni",
"why": "An externally visible declaration was removed while another production file still references its name.",
"suggestion": "Migrate or remove the stale reference, or restore the declaration when compatibility is required.",
"version": 1,
"semanticMaturity": "project",
"securityKind": "none",
"taxonomy": [
"maintainability"
],
"requirements": [
"sourceText"
],
"packs": [
"diff-quality"
],
"implementation": "src/rules/diff_quality.rs",
"languages": [],
"frameworks": [],
"languageVersions": [],
"limitations": [
"Requires changed-base evidence, a removed public declaration, and a remaining masked reference in another selected production file.",
"Dynamic references and declarations that do not use conventional language syntax cannot be resolved.",
"Runs only for focused changes touching at most five production source files."
]
}