package validation

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 17:55, Jack Howarth wrote:

>   Is there anyway to prescan a Profile for validity?
> In fink, there is 'fink validate foobar.info" which
> will report obvious syntax and policy errors without
> building. Do we have anything like that in fink for
> either the Portfile or packages produced?

port lint

It's useful but not perfect. If you see the need for a new warning, or  
an existing warning that's off, let us know.