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authorEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2015-09-10 15:34:58 -0500
committerEric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>2015-09-14 18:03:33 -0500
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tree091d433edb7c567dbed389928d19d0ad3f955eb8 /doc/guix.texi
parent3b4d01035f214ac57ac1517b719e2b0f0f092411 (diff)
downloadguix-50f5c46d0674eb68201c56bef17b2a41c7744404.tar.gz
guix: lint: Check for meaningful origin file names.
* guix/scripts/lint.scm (check-source-file-name): New procedure.
  (%checkers): Add 'source-file-name' checker.
* tests/lint.scm ("source-file-name", "source-file-name: v prefix")
  ("source-file-name: valid", "source-file-name: bad checkout")
  ("source-file-name: good checkout"): New tests.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix lint): Mention file name check.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
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@@ -4219,8 +4219,11 @@ Identify inputs that should most likely be native inputs.
 
 @item source
 @itemx home-page
+@itemx source-file-name
 Probe @code{home-page} and @code{source} URLs and report those that are
-invalid.
+invalid.  Check that the source file name is meaningful, e.g. is not
+just a version number or ``git-checkout'', and should not have a
+@code{file-name} declared (@pxref{origin Reference}).
 
 @item formatting
 Warn about obvious source code formatting issues: trailing white space,