On Jan 5, 2016, at 5:11 PM, Max Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Now lint … lint I’m not sure about. It’s problematic as soon as you try to 
>> establish a standard, as we’ve already established on this list in the 
>> “mandatory self” discussion. The truth is that I don’t care about a third 
>> party lib’s weird formatting decisions nearly as much as I care about its 
>> tests passing.
> 
> Here by “lint” I mean packaging concerns for linting, specifically: is the 
> semantic version the package claims *correct*. Code standards are not part of 
> the publishing lint step as indeed, this seems excessive and not a decision 
> for us to make.

Ah, that makes much more sense! Sorry for being slow on the uptake. Yes, 
programmatic validation of semantic versioning seems like a fine idea.

Cheers, P

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