From: Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers.
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:03:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw8iyisp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fvebre25.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> Eric Bavier <ericbavier@gmail.com> skribis:
>> 2. Many descriptions begin with the package name in lowercase form,
>> which triggers a warning about the description beginning with a
>> lowercase letter. In this patch I capitalised the package name if I
>> could find a reference to the capital form on the package's home-page
>> somewhere. Many packages are quite insistent that the package always be
>> referenced by the lowercase name, and I'm not sure how the description
>> would be reworded, or whether it really needs to be. We could add an
>> exception to the description-starts-with-a-capital-letter rule for when
>> the package name is the first word.
>
> Yes, sounds like a good idea.
I'll do this in an updated patch.
>> 3. Some synopses begin with a numeral, triggering the capital-letter
>> warning.
>
> guile -c '(use-modules(guix)(gnu)(ice-9 regex))(fold-packages (lambda (p r) (if (and (package-synopsis p) (string-match "^[0-9]" (package-synopsis p))) (cons p r) r)) (list))'
>
> returns the empty list. Which one was it?
E.g. linux-libre, fltk, and cairo.
>> Comments welcome. Nitpicks especially, since much of this is already
>> quite nitpicky. ;)
>
> I was wondering who was going to take care of that now that we have all
> these fancy checkers, so thank you! :-)
>
> I skimmed through it and I think you can commit it. If ‘make
> sync-description’ is unhappy, we should see what’s going on, and
> possibly amend the upstream description if needed.
I forgot about sync-description here. I will check that.
--
Eric Bavier
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-24 5:19 [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Some cleanup based on lint checkers Eric Bavier
2014-10-24 16:05 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-25 22:06 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-24 18:32 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-25 22:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-26 15:03 ` Eric Bavier [this message]
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