On 2018-3-17 09:05 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On 16 March 2018 at 15:02, Ryan Schmidt wrote: >> >> On Mar 16, 2018, at 08:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> >>> How will you distinguish patchfiles from others, like select lists, ed >>> files, Makefiles etc? >> >> I wouldn't. If the author of the portfile finds that distinction important, >> they could continue to maintain it. port lint wouldn't care. >> >>> I support relaxing rules, but you cannot even rely on all files matching >>> the relaxed version form. >> >> What do you mean? Do you have an example in mind? > > I may be just confused. I didn't even know that lint would check the > filenames under files/ folder. All I wanted to say is that if it does > or if it will check, relaxing this condition would still result in > warnings/errors unless lint would be able to distinguish patches from > other types of files. > > Relaxing the rule sounds totally reasonable. It just wasn't clear to > me how you would distinguish patchfiles from other types of files.
The lint check in question doesn't look at the contents of files/, it looks at the patchfiles option. - Josh
