Re: [gentoo-dev] Some 'proper coding' notes for ebuilds

[George Shapovalov]

On Friday 08 August 2003 12:16, Douglas Russell wrote:
> I've been looking into integrating the lintool functionality into repoman
> for the last couple of days, am beginning to make some headway. I will let
> you know where I've got something worth looking at.
>
> I'm aware that lintool is "broken", but nobody seems to know exactly what
> is wrong with it. This would help enoumously if someone could enlighten
> me...

It isn't actually broken that much. This is the one I am getting every time:
* Testing for malformed headers                                      : failed
- (W) Has illegal or suspect headers:
- (E) Missing Copyright statement

This is due to 2003 not being in the list of "valid years".

The main reason why lintool is deprecated is that it only performs 
ebuild-specific checks, i.e. no digest checking or, perheaps the main 
problem, no dependency checking, like repoman does. The deprecation was 
really put to force everybody use repoman from what I remember. Although I 
would appreciate having an *additional* ebuild-specific tool - I find it 
useful to have the ability to do easy preliminary checks on submitted stuff..
(that is to say, I would personally appreciate having lintool around if 
possible, just make sure everybody understands that *this is not a 
substitute* for repoman!). But having lintool checks incorporated in repoman 
is definitely usefull for those who do not want to bother with multiple 
tools..

George



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