Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?
On Fri, 2023-12-29 at 10:22 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Alternatively, for spell-checks, I think someone once wrote a
> "spellintian" that could use lintian's dataset for spell checking
> without running the full lintian program. Not sure what became of it.
In 2015 you added Jakub Wilk's spellintian to lintian at my request :)
$ dpkg -S `which spellintian`
lintian: /usr/bin/spellintian
$ apt changelog lintian
lintian (2.5.32) unstable; urgency=medium
* commands/spellintian.pm:
+ [JW,NT] Import Jakub Wilk's spellintian tool with minor
modifications.
* debian/{lintian.links,manpages}:
+ [NT] Install spellintian in PATH and install its manpage.
Thanks to Paul Wise for the suggestion. (Closes: #767867)
-- Niels Thykier Sun, 28 Jun 2015 14:08:29 +0200
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Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?
> Paul already answered the lintian part, so I will skip that. But I also > wanted to suggest looking into integrated spell-checking in your editor > if possible. Having integrated spell-check will enable a much faster > feedback loop. Thanks the reply, but basic spell checking is pretty much already solved (ignoring the fact that we have hunspell, nuspell and aspell trying to solve the same problem but none of them doing it perfectly - that is another story). I use Pulsar and have in it https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/packages/spell-check with hunspell as backend. Additionally I occasionally run these spell checkers from the command-line manually (sharing in case others want to try them out): codespell --write --check-filenames --check-hidden debian/ find debian/ -type f | xargs spellintian --picky aspell --mode=debctrl -c debian/control
Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?
Otto Kekäläinen: Hi! Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1]. However, many of the Lintian source package checks (e.g. spelling of debian/changelog entries) don't strictly depend on anything being built. Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/ directory contents as-is without doing a source build first? I am exploring this in order to get my text editor to nag about findings immediately without separate source build steps. Otto [1] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/lintian/lintian.1.en.html Paul already answered the lintian part, so I will skip that. But I also wanted to suggest looking into integrated spell-checking in your editor if possible. Having integrated spell-check will enable a much faster feedback loop. As an example, if you are using a Jetbrains IDE (such as CLion or PyCharm Community Edition), then I added a plugin (`Debian Packaging Support`), which among other has spell-checking of d/changelog + the description fields inside d/control. Alternatively, for spell-checks, I think someone once wrote a "spellintian" that could use lintian's dataset for spell checking without running the full lintian program. Not sure what became of it. Best regards, Niels
Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?
On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 16:43 +0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1]. (and some checks require *both* source and binary packages available) > Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/ > directory contents as-is without doing a source build first? I don't think this is supported yet, there is a bug open since 2004: https://bugs.debian.org/262783 > I am exploring this in order to get my text editor to nag about > findings immediately without separate source build steps. This will miss the binary-only and source-and-binary checks, but it would indeed be quite useful for the source-only checks. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?
Hi! Currently Lintian requires a (source or binary) package to check[1]. However, many of the Lintian source package checks (e.g. spelling of debian/changelog entries) don't strictly depend on anything being built. Is anyone aware of a way to run lintian directly on a debian/ directory contents as-is without doing a source build first? I am exploring this in order to get my text editor to nag about findings immediately without separate source build steps. Otto [1] https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/lintian/lintian.1.en.html
