Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2024-01-03 Thread Paul Wise
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

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-29 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> 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

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-29 Thread Niels Thykier
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/

Re: Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-24 Thread Paul Wise
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

Running Lintian against a debian/ directory?

2023-12-22 Thread 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