On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 10:06:52AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote: > > lintian: check for not wrap-and-sort formatted files > > Good idea.
I don't think it is.
wrap-and-sort (or the equivalent from cme) is not widely enough adopted
as of yet. I personally try to have all my sponsee use it, and I
sometimes force a wrap-and-sort into NMUs, but it's still too rare.
Also, wouldn't you need to pick only one of the -t, -s, -a combinations?
I see people disliking -t (trailing commas) also because it's not in
policy, and arguments for and agaist -s and -a; see the wrap-and-sort
manual if you don't understand what I'm talking about.
And that's without considering cme's configuration.
> Alas, I fear that this would either require calling out to
> wrap-and-sort (!) and diffing the result, or essentially reimplementing
> it within Lintian itself?
You could use libconfig-model-dpkg-perl, most probably. Therefore
elevating cme's implementation.
Summing up: I don't think it's a practise ready to be nudged by lintian
yet.
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