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Deprecation of contain_duplicates in inspec

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
operating-systems, security

Research direction

Start with controls/os_spec.rb at the referenced line and read related issue 738 to understand the InSpec deprecation. Update the deprecated contain_duplicates usage as required by that guidance, then run the profile checks and confirm the deprecation warning no longer appears.

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[DEPRECATION] `contain_duplicates` is deprecated and will be removed for InSpec 1.0. See https://github.com/chef/inspec/issues/738 for more details
[DEPRECATION] `contain_duplicates` is deprecated and will be removed for InSpec 1.0. See https://github.com/chef/inspec/issues/738 for more details

Related issue: https://github.com/chef/inspec/issues/738

The related code is in the os_spec.rb

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