Subject: Re: lintian: Add an optional to check for a package dir before performing a build

From: Otto Kekäläinen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:06:13 +0000

Hi!

I just wanted to +1 on this idea.

I am exploring this in order to get my text editor to nag about findings
immediately without separate build steps. To implement something similar to
e.g. linter-shellcheck[1] in my favorite editor it would help immensely if
Lintian would accept simply the path to an existing 'debian/' directory as
an argument, or even better if it would accept individual files (e.g.
debian/control) and then run all the lints that are applicable to plain
debian/* files.

[1] https://web.pulsar-edit.dev/packages/linter-shellcheck