[30149] trunk/dports/gnome/gnome-doc-utils

[Anders F Björklund]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> I was just wondering why it should make so many existing ports 
>> invalid,
>> but as long as someone is up to renaming all the files and 
>> Portfiles...
>
> It doesn't make them invalid. They still work fine. "port lint" exists 
> to tell you about things that are wrong with your portfiles (errors) 
> and things which could be improved about your portfiles (warnings). 
> The patchname check is a warning, not an error.

I was kinda hoping that the ports should pass without errors OR 
warnings.

But maybe it should whine about missing modelines or tab characters too,
I just thought we had agreed that both forms of patches were acceptable.

If it indeed is something that "SHOULD" be used, then by all means lint.

--anders